beprosev.
/bɪˈprəʊz/ 1. transitive. To turn into prose.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > write or express in prose [verb (transitive)] > turn into prose
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1733 D. Mallet Of Verbal Crit. 142 To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.
2. transitive. To discuss in prose, to ‘prose’ about.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > write or express in prose [verb (transitive)]
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1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) ii. 151 There is hardly a single character..which has not been more plentifully beprosed than ever Rosalind was berhymed.
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