rhapsodize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rhapsody
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English rhapsodize
From rhapsody + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: rhapsodizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rhapsodizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rhapsodized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rhapsodized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rhapsodise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).
pos: verb
tags: British
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intransitive
examples: The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.
How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables? How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach?
The Mysteries of Udolpho have been so much laughed at as the type of Gothic absurdity that it is difficult to come at the book with a fresh eye. We come, expecting to ridicule. Then, when we find beauty, as we do, we go to the other extreme and rhapsodize.
Ron was rhapsodizing about his new broom to anybody who would listen.
King Charles has rhapsodized about the charms of Romania for decades. “There is a sense of age-old continuity here,” he explained in a story last year in The Spectator.
gloss: To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
pos: verb
tags: British
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transitive
examples: “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”
“Listen, my pearl,” he rhapsodized. “I have money now and you shall have dresses like rainbows, a gold tiara and slave girls to wait on you […]”
gloss: To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
pos: verb
tags: British
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transitive
examples: The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]
The great poetry of the opening chapter of Ulysses […] amplifies and rhapsodizes the world with an unlooked-for accuracy and transport.
gloss: To perform a rhapsody.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
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intransitive
examples: […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730.
Should one gather statistics of the enormous production of poetry some sixty or seventy years ago, they would scarcely appear credible. Journals and magazines teemed with it. Editors openly countenanced it. Even the daily press affected it. Love sighed in home-made stanzas. Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature.
Derived words: rhapsodization
rhapsodizer
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