beprose

verb

beprose

verb

/bɪˈpɹəʊz/

Etymology From be- + prose.

1

Rare To reduce to prose.

  • Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism:

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