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An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize. I versify the truth, not poetize. Donne.

position, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir P. Sidney. She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry. Shak.

; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.

One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman. While empiric politicians use deceit. Dryden.

Versed in, or speaking, many languages.

One versed in various learning. [R.]

One versed in many sciences; a person of various learning.

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.

One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.

A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [Obs.] Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andr…

To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

n any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,

One versed in the science of promorphology.

ending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. "[The] propulsive movement of the verse." Coleridge.

or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is;…

Consisting both of prose and verse. Clarke.

part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.