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Definition of Metricized
1. metricize [v] - See also: metricize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metricized
Literary usage of Metricized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures Since the by Ronald Edward Zupko (1990)
""Libbra nuova italiana" (new Italian pound) refers to the libbra and other weights
of the metricized Milanese system after 1803. 35. ..."
2. Modes and Morals by Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920)
"One Presbyterian sect sings, I believe, nothing but the Psalms—rather unfortunately
metricized, to be sure—and their church singing is the dreariest in the ..."
3. A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1901)
"... which " is not so easily metricized as " Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed
upon"—Rich. III. i. 4. 25. "The pleasure that some fathers feed upon. ..."
4. Italian Weights and Measures from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century by Ronald Edward Zupko (1981)
"LIBBRA NUOVA ITALIANA -- new Italian pound; refers to the "libbra" and other
weights of the metricized Milanese system (p!803)• LODIGIANO -- of Lodi; ..."
5. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1896)
"l 757), who paraphrased and metricized Blind Harry's Wallace:— ' " AIM ! aim !"
quo Bonnie Heck, " On former days when I reflect! ..."
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