v. i. [ L. metrum meter + -fy: cf. F. métrifier. ] To make verse. [ R. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]
And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Like Niobe we marble grow,
And petrify with grief. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]
And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Like Niobe we marble grow,
And petrify with grief. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]