metrify

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

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

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

Related terms edit

metrification

References edit

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