metrification

English

Noun

metrification (countable and uncountable, plural metrifications)

A composition in metrical form; a versification.
- 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “[Experiments.] In Quantity. Milton. Hendecasyllabics.”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 175:
  Should I flounder awhile without a tumble / Thro' this metrification of Catullus, […]
(Canada, US) Metrication.

Related terms

metrify

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metrification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)