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rhapsodize, v.|ˈræpsədaɪz|
Also 7 rap-.
[f. rhapsody n. + -ize.]
†1. To piece (miscellaneous narratives, etc.) together; to relate disconnectedly. Obs.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass Ep. Ded. ⁋6 Looke not on these rapsodized lines, I pray you, with a pittying eie. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy vi. xxi, To rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work. 1765Ibid. vii. xxviii, I am..in a handsome pavilion.., where I now sit rhapsodizing all these affairs.
2. To recite in rhapsodies. Also absol.
a1822Shelley Ion Prose Wks. 1888 II. 130 How is it..that..you continually go about Greece rhapsodising, and never lead our armies? 1846Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 173 That the Thebaïs and the Epigoni were then rhapsodised at Sicyôn as Homeric productions. 1886F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. VII. 307 We do know on good external evidence that the Iliad was rhapsodised.
3. intr. To utter rhapsody; to talk rhapsodically.
1806H. K. White Let. to J. Charlesworth 22 Sept., I..shall be happy to spend a few days with you at Clapham, and to rhapsodize on your common. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale xliv. 308 Thinking the gallant Hibernian had been rhapsodising. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 230 He never rhapsodized about scenery. 1887Marzials Dickens v. 66 [Little Nell] has been etherialized, vapourized, rhapsodized about, till the flesh and blood have gone out of her.
†4. trans. To exalt, carry aloft. Obs.
(? Suggested by rapt pa. pple.)
1616R. C. Times' Whistle v. 1925 But for the rest, whose vertuous operation..Doth rapsodize the soules intelligence Above the levell of inferiour sence.
Hence ˈrhapsodizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park II. iv. 76 You will think me rhapsodizing. 1872M. E. Braddon R. Ainsleigh II. xii. 171, I took you for a beggarly native; and here have you been listening to my rhapsodizing. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece iv. 94 He specially inveighs against rhapsodising bards. |
