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versifier

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ver⋅si⋅fy

  [vur-suh-fahy] verb, -fied, -fy⋅ing.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to relate, describe, or treat (something) in verse.
2. to convert (prose or other writing) into metrical form.
–verb (used without object)
3. to compose verses.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME versifien < OF versifier < L versificāre. See verse, -ify

Related forms:
ver⋅si⋅fi⋅er, noun
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ver·si·fy   (vûr'sə-fī')   
v.   ver·si·fied, ver·si·fy·ing, ver·si·fies

v.   tr.

  1. To change from prose into metrical form.

  2. To treat or tell in verse: versify stories from the Bible.

v.   intr.
To write verses.

[Middle English versifien, from Old French versifier, from Latin versificāre : versus, verse; see verse1 + -ficāre, -fy.]
ver'si·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n., ver'si·fi'er n.
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Word Origin & History

versify 
c.1340 (implied in versifier), from O.Fr. versifier "turn into verse" (13c.), from L. versificare "compare verse," from versus "verse" (see verse) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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