iambize

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English

Etymology

From iamb +‎ -ize.

Verb

iambize (third-person singular simple present iambizes, present participle iambizing, simple past and past participle iambized)

  1. (transitive) To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 iambize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)