rhapsodise

Verb

rhapsodize (third-person singular simple present rhapsodizes, present participle rhapsodizing, simple past and past participle rhapsodized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).
   • The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 76

   Synonyms:

   rave

2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
   • “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”1896, Abraham Cahan, chapter 5, in Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, New York: Appleton
3. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
   • The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 90
4. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To perform a rhapsody.
   • […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730.1824, Lady Morgan, The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, London: Henry Colburn, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 33, footnote