Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Music To write or sing lyrics.
- v. To write lyrically or in a lyric style.
- v. To treat (something) lyrically; put into lyric style.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To write lyrics or write lyrically.
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“They close their eyes and lyricize about the near-spiritual satisfaction they get from communing with the various twigs and animal parts and different-colored dust they flavor stuff with.”
“What comfort is it to the relatives of the Sabra and Shatila victims, you might ask, that a few conscripts who stood by and did nothing are now free to articulate, and even to lyricize, their internal pain?”
“As the 88-year-old jazz great Jon Hendricks, perhaps the greatest Vocalese master of all once put it: "We do what librettists do for opera … we lyricize all the musical action that's going on.”
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