Definitions for versify

versify ver·si·fy

Spelling: [vur-suh-fahy]
IPA: /ˈvɜr səˌfaɪ/

Versify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in versify (efirsvy).

Definitions for versify

verb (used with object)

  1. to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
  2. to convert (prose or other writing) into metrical form.

verb (used without object)

  1. to compose verses.

Origin of versify

1350-1400; Middle English versifien Old French versifier Latin versificāre. See verse, -ify

Examples for versify

A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.'

But I don't think the people had ever much opinion of the Stuarts; but in those days they were all prone to versify.

His powers were cramped by the fetters of metre, and his attempts to versify even rich thought and deep feeling were puerile.

There never were any excellent poets, says Mr. Bayle, that could versify, till after drinking pretty plentifully5.

You are obliged to talk like a bourgeois, and versify like one.

I know somebody who is ready to versify to double the extent at the same cost to you, and do his best, too, and you also know.

For the Munstermen have always been more 'prone to versify' than their leaner neighbours on the bogs and stones of Connaught.

Bolingbroke persuaded Pope to versify portions of the philosophy he admired so extravagantly.

Dryden, who is known not to be nicely scrupulous, informs us, that he would not versify it on account of its indecency.

We shall endeavour to versify it, à la Patmore, conceiving that its issue is very similar to that of his story of “The River.”

Word Value for versify
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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