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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
versify .
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Examples
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The praise of Nothing is very well versified from the Latin of Passerat, whose verses Dr. Johnson thought worthy of a place in his _Life of Lord
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The earliest versified Bestiary, which is also a Volucrary, a Herbary, and a Lapidary, that of Philippe de Thaon (before 1135), is versified from the Latin _Physiologus_, itself a translation from the work of an Alexandrian Greek of the second century.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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The incident of the viper and the kittens again, which he "versified" in _The
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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Pope "versified" some of Donne's rugged satires, and Johnson quoted passages from him as examples of the bad taste of the metaphysical poets.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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Further, Payas complains that in his enthusiasm to set Aztec literature beside Classical Greek Garibay cut up the Nahuatl manuscript text into a versified form and introduced rhythm to conform to the classical Greek model.
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One of the criticisms leveled against Garibay was his presentation of the text of the Aztec lyric poems in a versified form.
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These versified mnemonics are known as the "Interleaved Summaries of the Vinaya Discours".
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One of the criticisms leveled against Garibay was his presentation of the text of the Aztec lyric poems in a versified form.
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These versified mnemonics are known as the "Interleaved Summaries of the Vinaya Discours".
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Further, Payas complains that in his enthusiasm to set Aztec literature beside Classical Greek Garibay cut up the Nahuatl manuscript text into a versified form and introduced rhythm to conform to the classical Greek model.
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