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  • 41To make with — Make Make (m[=a]k), v. i. 1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A scurvy, jack a nape priest to meddle or make. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To …

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  • 42Transprose — Trans*prose , v. t. [Pref. trans + prose.] To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose. [Obs.] Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 43Verse — Verse, v. i. To make verses; to versify. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 44verse — I. noun Etymology: Middle English vers, fers, from Anglo French vers & Old English fers, both from Latin versus, literally, turning, from vertere to turn more at worth Date: before 12th century 1. a line of metrical writing 2. a. (1) metrical… …

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  • 45Vittorio Alfieri — painted by David s pupil François Xavier Fabre, in Florence 1793. Count Vittorio Alfieri (16 January 1749 – 8 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist, considered the founder of Italian tragedy. [1] Contents …

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  • 46Augustan poetry — is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was… …

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  • 47The Power of the Fiend — Operas by Alexander Serov Judith (1863) Rogneda (1865) The Power of the Fiend (1871) …

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  • 48Psyché (play) — For the opera of the same name, see Psyché. Psyché is a Tragédie et ballet of 1671, composed by Molière and versified in collaboration with Pierre Corneille and Philippe Quinault with musical intermèdes by Jean Baptiste Lully. HistoryMolière s… …

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  • 49rhyme — rhymer, n. /ruym/, n., v., rhymed, rhyming. n. 1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. 2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind. 3. verse or poetry having… …

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  • 50verse — /verrs/, n., adj., v., versed, versing. n. 1. (not in technical use) a stanza. 2. a succession of metrical feet written, printed, or orally composed as one line; one of the lines of a poem. 3. a particular type of metrical line: a hexameter verse …

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