beprose

English

Etymology

From 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.
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