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Definition of Metricize
1. Verb. Express in the metric system.
2. Verb. Convert from a non-metric to the metric system.
Generic synonyms: Change Over, Convert
Derivative terms: Metrication
Definition of Metricize
1. Verb. To make metric ¹
2. Verb. To introduce metrics into (a process) ¹
3. Verb. (poetry) To use poetic meter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metricize
1. [v -CIZED, -CIZING, -CIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metricize
Literary usage of Metricize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"What we now call 'hymns' — verses not aiming to metricize the prose of the
Scripture, but freely and originally composed — were first made popular in ..."
2. The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays by Alfred (1852)
"We may here mention, that Alfred has omitted to metricize several little bits of
Boethius :—but there is, after all, considerable difficulty in deciding ..."
3. Memorials of King Alfred: Being Essays on the History and Antiquities of by Alfred, John Yonge Akerman, Daniel Henry Haigh, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Thomas Forester, B. C. Hook (1863)
"We may here mention, that Alfred has omitted to metricize several little bits of
Boethius :—but there is, after all, considerable difficulty in deciding ..."
4. King Alfred's Poems: Now First Turned Into English Metres by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850)
"We may here mention, that Alfred has omitted to metricize several little bits of
Boethius :—but there is, after all, considerable difficulty in deciding ..."
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