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poesy

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Noun
 : 
po=e=sy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun poesy has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

poesyn. [F. poésie (cf. It. poesia), L. poesis, from Gr. . from to make. Cf. Posy.].
  •  The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Poetry; metrical composition; poems.  [1913 Webster]
    "Music and poesy used to quicken you."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

poesy, n. archaic 1 poetry.
2 the art or composition of poetry.

Etymology
ME f. OF poesie ult. f. L poesis f. Gk poesis = poiesis making, poetry (as POEM)

THESAURUS

poesy

Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, anthology, bad poetry, book of verse, creative imagination, fire of genius, garland, inspiration, musical thought, poetastering, poetastery, poetic genius, poetic works, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, the Muses, the supreme fiction, verse, versemongering

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Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.

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