beprose
English
Etymology
be- + prose
Verb
beprose (third-person singular simple present beproses, present participle beprosing, simple past and past participle beprosed)
- (transitive, rare) To reduce to prose.
- 1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism:
- Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.
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