beprose

English

Etymology

be- +‎ prose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈpɹəʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz

Verb

beprose (third-person singular simple present beproses, present participle beprosing, simple past and past participle beprosed)

1. (transitive, rare) To reduce to prose.
   • 1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism:

     Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.