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melodize, v.|ˈmɛləʊdaɪz|
[f. melody + -ize.]
1. intr. To make melody; occas. somewhat jocularly, to play (on an instrument). Also poet. to blend melodiously with.
1662J. Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., Apol. conc. Perfect. 42 A Harmony of God, upon which the Spirit of God would melodise. 1794Southey Let. to H. Bedford 24 Jan. in Life (1849) I. 203 Lightfoot still melodises on the flute. 1811Scott Don Roderick Introd. ii, Yes! such a strain with all o'er-pouring measure, Might melodize with each tumultuous sound. 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 69 To murmur through the heaven-breathing groves And melodize with man's blest nature there. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. viii, As the Scotchman again melodised with a dying fall.
2. trans. To make melodious.
1759J. Langhorne Ode to River Eden 44 Whose murmurs melodize my Song. 1766H. Walpole Let. to Lady Hervey 11 Jan., Thy enchanting look Can melodize each note in Nature's book. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. II 253 These repeated attempts of the learned English..to melodise our orthoepy. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air (1874) 60 Music in which the words and thought lead, and the lyre measures or melodizes them.
3. To compose a melody for (a song).
1881Doran Drury Lane II. 191 He penned and melodised hundreds of popular songs.
Hence ˈmelodized ppl. a., made melodious; ˈmelodizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈmelodizer, one who melodizes.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. Introd. 14 This art of melodizing, if I may so call it, seems in the present age to have reached its acmé. a1821Keats Sonn. on reading K. Lear 3 O golden tongued Romance, with serene lute!.. Leave melodizing on this wintry day. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man III. ix. 240 Her bird-like singing is the melodised cheerfulness of her heart. 1890Temple Bar Dec. 588 Romance!..O golden melodizer of sweet dreams! |