versiform (versiform)

[ The 30th Psalm was the first which Luther versified ; then the 12th, 46th, 14th, 53rd, 67th, 124th, and 128th, which last Hu had done before, and it was only modernised by Luther. Burney, Hist. Music, III. 35, note. IMG:content-1800.png:[blocks in formation] I versify the truth. Daniel , Civil Wars, i. A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster. Goldsmith, Vicar, xvii. II. in trans. To make verses. I receyved your letter, sente me laste weeke; whereby I perceive you otherwhiles continue your old exercise of Versifying in Englishe. Spenser, To Gabriel Harvey. In versifying he was attempting an art which he had never learned, and for which he had no aptitude. Southey, Bunyan, p. 40.