metrify
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin metrum (“meter”) + -fy. Compare French métrifier.
Verb
metrify (third-person singular simple present metrifies, present participle metrifying, simple past and past participle metrified)
- To make verse.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Skelton to this entry?)
- (US, Canada) metricate
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metrify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)