transprose

English

Etymology

trans- +‎ prose

Verb

transprose (third-person singular simple present transproses, present participle transprosing, simple past and past participle transprosed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To change from prose into verse; to versify.
    • 1682, Nahum Tate, The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel
      Instinct he follows and no farther knows
      For to write Verse with him is to transprose.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To change from verse into prose.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 transprose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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