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VEBSICLE.
htnded in this versicle :
Cur, Quomodo, QuaxJo. i^ Needham Stldrn's Mare
CL Ep D«L 8 According to that old Versicle Frangit «t
atloltit virts in MiliU cavsa. 1817 BvRON Let. to Moore
25 Mar., Here are some versicles. 1849 Thackekay Pendennis
^1850) 11. 257 To these pretty little compositions Mr.
Pen replied . .with points of wit, n.iy, with pretty little
verses verj- likely, in reply to the versicles of the Muse of
'Mes Larmes'. 1893 ^lcCARTHY Red Diamonds III. 143
She »^s fond of writing versicles and setting them to music.
+ d. Without article. Ohsr^
1589 PuTTKSHAM Eiig. Poeiie I. v. (Arb.) 36 How the
wilde and sauage people vsed a naturall Poesie in versicle
and rime as our vulgar is. ...
Hence tVeT»iel« ^'- "''>' C^''''*' '')' '° ^'°S
versicles. 06s.-^
1550 Bale /»>«/. 131 b, I knowe thejT progresse was great,
as j-e were wont to versjxle it on thejT dales.
Qitis,Q$n\l, I'H, Quiiiit atixilih.
VeTSicler. rarr-^. [f. \'ebsiclej*.] a writer
of versicles or short verses ; a versifier.
1885 Meredith Diana xxx, I'll read your versider tomorrow
morning early.
Veraicolorate, a.
COLODBEDfl.
Ent. [-ate 2.] = Versil8>6
KiRBV & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 292 Vcrstcolorate^ .
when a surface changes its colour as the light varies.
«. rare-^. [f. late L. veisi-
VersicolOTOUS,
sb.] A versicle. Chiefly in pi.
1755 Genti. Mag. XXV. 93 The late bishop Hare, began
his enquiry by attempting to discover the length of the versiculi
or lines. x8ao Blnckw. Mag. June 323 A sentence of
panegyric on ray own versiculi. iBso Byron Lett, ft Jmls.
(1900) IV. 395 Pray let not these versiculi go forth with my
name, except among the initiated.
Versie : see Vebsy a. Obs.
Versifiable (vS'isifsliab'l), a. rarr-^. [f.
Versify v. + -able. Cf. OF. versifiabk^ That
can be versified or put into verse.
iSaSSoUTHEY Lett. (1856) IV. 107 Names and dates, &c.,
will precede it (i.e. the epitaph] in the usual form, telling
all that is not versifiable.
144
t Versi'fical, a. Obs.~'^ In 6 versyfyoall.
[f. late L. versific-its (cf. L. versifudre to versify) +
-AL.I Of or pertaining to the making of verse.
154S-7 in '' rchaeol. XXXIV. 40 They have the versyfyoall
rulys of Sulpice gevyn in the mornyng of one of the vj"i
forme.
f VeTSiiicate, v. Obs.—" [f. I- vcrsifical-, ppl.
stem of versificare to versify.] intr. ' To make
verses' (Bailey, 1721).
Versification (vaisifik^'-Jan). [ad. L. versification-,
versifuatio, noun of action f. versificare to
versify. So F. versification (1680), Sp. versifua-
cion, Pg. -afao, It. -azione.']
1. The action of composing verse ; the art or
practice of versifying.
In Rolland Crt. Veuus (c 1550) n. ij6 'Versification,
meter ' should perhaps be read for ' Versificat in meter ' of
t4ie text.
1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1 198 The order of writing
an historic, .came downe as one would say from the stately
chariot of versification, to prose, and went a foot. 1658
Phillips, Versification, a making of Verses. 1706 Pope i
Lett. Wks. 1736 V. 53 The thoughts I have already sent j
you on the .subject of English Versification. 1774 Warton
Hist. Eng. Poetry 1. 11. 27 Camden affirms, that Aldhelni..
taught his countrymen the art of Latin versification. 1790 •
CowpER Lett. 13 Sept., After perpetual versification during j
five years I find myself. . reduced to read for my amusement.
1814 Coleridge Table-t. 7 June, How lamentably the art |
of versification is neglected by most of the poets of the
present day I j86i Wright £js. /4rc/ia?« (or fo/")
imitated
times, .been found, .whitish, bla-k, green, eruginous, and by many men of letters. 1880 L. Stephen Pofe ill. 75 To a theme.
versicoloured. 1846 Landoh Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 467/1 If make theversification as smooth and the sense as transparent 1377 Langl. p. pi. B. XV. 367 For is none of bis newe
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thou hadst enveloped him in thy versicoloured and cloud- as possible.
clerkes. .pat can versifye faire ne fornialich enditen. 1:1440
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like vestiary. 1873 M. QaiA-m^ Squire Silchester III. xxii.
3. A poetical or metrical version 0/^ something. Promp. Parv. 508/2 Versyfyyn, versificor. 1483 Catk.
346 Arocket. .drops its versicoloured shower.
l8si Q. Rev. XXV. 36 Of this song we have been favoured Augt. 401/1 To versifye, versificare, versiciilare . CX520
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fig. 1867 ViscT. Strangford Selection (1869) I. 135 Such
with the following beautiful versification. 1858 Doran Crt. Skelton Magnyfi 1162 Yes, in faythe; I can versyfy. 1579
views . . on the subject of the versicoloured policy of France
Fools 154 Many of his epigrams.. are said to have been Lodge Def. Poetry, etc. (Hunt. Club) 15 Tully atributeth
in the East.
it for prais to Archias y' vpon any theame he cold versify
versifications of his own jokes.
Hence Terslcolouredness, 'the being of
extempory. 16x2 Brinsley Lud. Lit, viii. (1627) 121 To
Versificator (va-jsifik^'taj). [a. L. vcrsifi- learne to versifie, ex tempore, of any ordinary Theame. 1636
changeable Colours' (Bailey, 1727, vol. II).
color (whence also It. versificatore, Sp., Pg. versi- H. More Enthus. Tru (1712) 8 Maracus a Poet of Syracuse,
t Versi'cnlar, J*. Ohs.-^ [ad. med.L. »at can
1789 BuRNKY Hist. Mus. III. 35 note. The 30th. Psalm was
Versifier (v3Usif3i|3j). Forms: a. 4-5 versi- the first which Luther versified. 1814 DTsraeli Quarrels
singe Anthems, Responseris and Versiculis. 1517 in ..4 rchaeol.
LXI. 84 A booke with the Invitatorys and the versiculis flour, 5 -fyowre ; 5 versefiour, -fyour. /3. 5 Auth. (1S67) 256 Bolingbroke really wrote the 'Essay on
noted, a ijso IVyntoun's Cron. (Wemyss MS.) v. xi. .3625 versyfyer, -fyar, 6 veroyfyer, 5 vercifler, 5- Man', which Pope versified. 1837 LocKHART.yrt'^/ I. viii.
Versiculis thare to he can write, And ympnis alsua maid 247 These are all in prose like their originals; but he also
in
versified, .some lyrical fragments of Goethe.
dite. 1861 W. H. Russell in Times 14 May, A variety of
versicules, songs, and rhetorical exercitations. VersifyilXg (va-rsifaiiii)), vbl. sb. [f. prec. +
,
II Versiculus (vaisi-kifil^s). PI. -culi. [L.,
-inqI.] The .let or practice of making verses;
dim. of versus Verse sb. Cf. prec. and Versicle
an instance of this ; the art of composing verse ;
versification.
c 1450 Co-j. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 189 No clcrke abyl to here
oure book Of versyfyeng, nor of other scyen.s. 1479 Paston
Lett. III. 241, I lake no thynge but wersyfyynge, whyche I
troste to have with a lytyll contynuance. a 1568 Ascham
Scholem. 11. (\A>.) 147 Yet neither of them hath fullie hite
perfite and trew versifying. 1580 Spenser Let. to Harvey
Wks. (1912) 636, I perceiue you other whiles continue your
old exercise of Versifying in English, a 1653 Gouge Comm.
Hebr. V. 14 A scholar exercised in versifying will readily
distinguish between a true and false verse. 1677 J. Peter
Uitle), Artificial Versifying ; a New Way to make Latin
Verses. 1740 J. Clarke Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 61 Of what
Use Versifying is, , . I do not understand. 1830 Southey
Bunyan p. xlix. In versifying he was attempting an art