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Definition of Beprose
1. v. t. To reduce to prose.
Definition of Beprose
1. Verb. (transitive rare) To reduce to prose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beprose
1. to reduce to prose [v BEPROSED, BEPROSING, BEPROSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beprose
Literary usage of Beprose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"The low to swell, to level the sublime, To blast all beauty, and beprose all rhyme.
Great eldest-bom of Dullness, blind and bold ! ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... by Heav'n's decree, With ears that hear not, eyes shall not see; The low to
swell, to level the sublime, To blast all beauty, and beprose all rhyme. ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see; The low to swell, to level
the sublime, To blast all beauty, and beprose all rhyme. ..."
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