Definitions
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- v. Alternative spelling of rhapsodize.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See rhapsodize.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. recite a rhapsody
- v. say (something) with great enthusiasm
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Examples
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By the time he gets to his time as a TV titan forty years on, he seems more content to rhapsodise about his boat or offer banal observations on family and aging.
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It's exactly the type of thing the villagers rhapsodise about as "moderation" and "bipartisanship."
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But the true tragedy of this shameful debacle is that while half-wits rhapsodise about the 30th anniversary shindig, many of the people who imbued the b (r) and with this mercurial quality that everyone wants to rub up against are working on the very peripheries of the music industry, if they work within it at all.
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June — hear her rhapsodise — be introduced to the painter — have to control her face in front of that girl?
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On the subject of his Petinka, as he called him, the poor old man could never sufficiently rhapsodise and dilate.
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The lover can moon and rhapsodise at a safe distance, and it makes not
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He is greater than she had supposed, and so she must even rhapsodise -- she must crowd praise on praise, until she ends with the exultant cry:
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Both are silly; both are mischievous; and each, I think, is as silly and mischievous as the other; so you are not to expect me to rhapsodise on the national greatness of Canada on the one hand, or on the glory of the Empire on the other.
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The Tooth of Remorse may be sharp but the Fangs of Hunger bite deeper still, and who shall cherish beauty in his soul or who find patience to rhapsodise on a sunset when his stomach is empty as a drum?
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But now I praise the admirable patriotism of JOHN REDMOND; I eulogise the financial genius of LLOYD GEORGE; I grow fervid as I rhapsodise about WINSTON.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914
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