Meanings
verbbeprose (third-person singular simple present beproses, present participle beprosing, simple past and past participle beprosed)
present singular third person beproses · participle present beprosing · participle past beprosed · past beprosed
- raretransitiveTo reduce to prose.
Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.
1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
- Proto-Germanic*bi
- Proto-Germanic*bi-
- Proto-West Germanic*bi-
- Old Englishbe-
- Middle Englishbi-
- Englishbe-
- Englishprose
- Englishbeprose
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with beprose
closegoesosrosefollowsclothesknowsJosedosnosechosehoseproposediscloseposeimposefellowsopposeexposeprosebosecomposedisposeenclose
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APA
beprose. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beprose
MLA
“beprose.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beprose. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beprose,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beprose.
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