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verbtransprose (third-person singular simple present transproses, present participle transprosing, simple past and past participle transprosed)
present singular third person transproses · participle present transprosing · participle past transprosed · past transprosed
- obsoletetransitiveTo change from verse into prose.
Coordinate term: transverse
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Inſtinct he follvvs and no farther knovvs, / For to vvrite Verſe vvith him is to Tranſproſe.
1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 14
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