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metrify, v.|ˈmɛtrɪfaɪ|
Also 6 metrefy.
[ad. F. métrifier (14th c.), ad. L. metrificāre: see metrificate and -fy.]
1. trans. To put into metre, make a metrical version of. Also intr., to make verses.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1382 Also a deuoute Prayer to Moses hornis, Metrifyde merely, medelyd with scornis. Ibid. 1464 Wherevpon he metrefyde after his mynde. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi[i]. (Arb.) 109 It [an obelisk] holdeth the altitude of six ordinary triangles, and in metrifying his base can not well be larger than a meetre of six. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xvii. 143 It is metrified in this Octastick. 1861Irving Hist. Scot. Poetry 392 Twenty psalms were metrified by two individuals.
2. intr. = metricate v. a. rare.
1968Sunday Times 31 Mar. 10 The Confederation of British Industry hopes that 75 per cent. of Britain's industries will have metrified by 1975.
Hence ˈmetrified ppl. a., ˈmetrifying vbl. n. Also ˈmetrifier (in quot., one who adopts classic metres in English verse).
1836Southey Life Cowper C.'s Wks. II. 129 The license which the metrifiers took in this respect, infected other poets. 1887Sat. Rev. 16 Apr. 552 The grimly metrified psalter. |