metrify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb compose in poetic meter
    • The bard metrified his poems very precisely
  2. verb convert from a non-metric to the metric system
    metricise; metricize; metricate.

WordNet

Met"ri*fy intransitive verb
Etymology
L. metrum meter + -fy: cf. F. métrifier.
Definitions
  1. To make verse. R. Skelton.

Webster 1913