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.
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  2. (US, Canada) metricate

See also

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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