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单词 pentametrize
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pentametrizev.

Forms: 1800s pentametrise, 1800s pentametrize.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pentametr- , pentameter , -ize suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin pentametr-, pentameter pentameter n. + -ize suffix. Compare earlier metrize v.1
Prosody. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To make into a pentameter or pentameters.
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a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VII. 548 Horace has been made to say the same thing by the insertion of an apt word which pentametrizes the verse.
1898 W. E. Heitland in Jrnl. Philol. 26 10 There was not the same risk of pentametrizing the hexameters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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