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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Poetical works; poetry.
  2. n. The art or practice of composing poems.
  3. n. The inspiration involved in composing poetry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The art of poetic composition; skill in making poems.
  2. n. Poetry; metrical composition.
  3. n. A poem.
  4. n. A motto or sentimental conceit engraved on a ring or other trinket. See posy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty.
  2. n. Poetry; metrical composition; poems.
  3. n. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. literature in metrical form

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French poesie, from Latin poēsis. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English poesie, from Old French, from Latin poēsis, from Greek poiēsis, from poiein, to create; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “To me poesy is the crystalization of a time, place, mood, event, etc. made very personal by the words and form chosen.”

    poesie - French Word-A-Day

  • “I will show more imagery in twenty lines of Pope than in any equal length of quotation in English poesy, and that in places where they least expect it.”

    Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals

  • “_imagery_ in twenty lines of Pope than in any equal length of quotation in English poesy, and that in places where they least expect it.”

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals

  • “Budur; and’ kissing her between the eyes, looked at Maymunah and at his beloved Princess and recited the following verses, albeit he had no skill in poesy,”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum doemonum, because it filleth the imagination; and yet, it is but with the shadow of a lie.”

    The Essays

  • “Did not one of the fathers in great indignation call poesy vinum daemonum, because it increaseth temptations, perturbations, and vain opinions?”

    The Advancement of Learning

  • “One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dæmonum [devils’-wine], because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.”

    I. Of Truth

  • “Dishes are more or less mixed up with poesy, which is full of "flowing bowls,”

    The Complete Home

  • “One of the fathers, in great severity called poesy _vinum dæmonum_," says Bacon: himself too fanciful for a philosopher.”

    Logic Deductive and Inductive

  • “One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy _vinum doemonum, _ because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.”

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3

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  1. poetry
  1. poems
  1. posy
  1. verse

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  1. genre
  1. writing style
  1. literary genre

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  1. heroic poetry
  1. epos
  1. epic poetry

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