Definitions for poesy

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poesy po·e·sy

Spelling: [poh-uh-see, -zee]

IPA: /ˈpoʊ ə si, -zi/

Poesy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in poesy (eopsy).

Definitions for poesy

noun

1. the work or the art of poetic composition.
2. Archaic. poetry in general. verse or poetry in metrical form.
3. Obsolete. a poem or verse used as a motto. Compare posy (def 2). a poem.

Origin of poesy

1300-50; Middle English poesie Middle French Latin poēsis Greek poíēsis poetic art, poetry, literally, a making, equivalent to poiē-, variant stem of poieîn to make + -sis

Examples for poesy

At least I can do none of these things, and poesy wearies me to read, much more to write.

Neither of the partners in poesy had the least idea of anything more than being just that.

And he is wise too; for he is a poet, and the author of poesy in others.

Has he ever drunk deep draughts from old fountains of poesy?

The flowers of poesy are sweet, but poverty is a barren soil, my child.

Never did rebuke so fill us with shame at our want of imagination and of poesy.

Such completeness of view, however, is alien to the poesy of Hawaii.

How difficult then to ascertain the truth respecting our poesy and music!

The daisy (Saxon Daeges ege) has often been cited as fragrant with poesy.

What sweetness hath Muscovada to him who hath tasted of poesy?