versing

Verb (1)

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (obsolete) To compose verses.
   • It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber...
2. (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
   • playing on pipes of corn and versing lovec. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
3. (figuratively, transitive) to educate about, to teach about.
   • He versed us in the finer points of category theory.

Verb (2)

verse (third-person singular simple present verses, present participle versing, simple past and past participle versed)

1. (colloquial, proscribed, sometimes) To oppose, to compete against.
   • When teams play now they "verse" each other. "Who did you verse?" (Forget "whom". It's long dead.) "We're versing you next." Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of "versus" more keenly than many.2007 March 26, Nick Green, “Being illiterate and innumerate shouldn’t shame anyone”, in Sydney Morning Herald

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