Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change from verse into prose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To change from
prose intoverse ; toversify . - verb obsolete, transitive To change from
verse intoprose .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
trans- + prose
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Heavy complaints have been made respecting the transprosing of the old plays by Cibber; but it never occurred to these critics to ask, how it came that no one ever attempted to transprose a comedy of Shakspeare's.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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