musicalise

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Etymology

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From musical +‎ -ise.

Verb

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musicalise (third-person singular simple present musicalises, present participle musicalising, simple past and past participle musicalised) (British spelling)

  1. To set (a text etc) to music.
    • 1997, Stephen Citron, The Musical from the Inside Out, Elephant Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 108:
      Although she [Maurine Watkins] was adamant about it throughout her lifetime, after she was dead, her executors gave permission to musicalise her work.
  2. To compose music for a dramatic work.

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