metrify

English

Etymology

From Latin metrum (“meter”) + -fy. Compare French métrifier.

Verb

metrify (third-person singular simple present metrifies, present participle metrifying, simple past and past participle metrified)

  1. To make verse.
    • a. 1529, John Skelton, The Crowne of Lawrell:
      he metrified after his mynde
  2. (US, Canada) metricate

See also

References

“metrify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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