noun. Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure.

noun. Commonplace expression or quality.

noun. A hymn of irregular meter sung before the Gospel.

intransitive verb. To write prose.

intransitive verb. To speak or write in a dull, tiresome style.

To write or compose in prose: as, a fable prosed or versified.

To write or compose in prose.

To write or speak in a dull or tedious manner.

noun. The ordinary written or spoken language of man; language not conformed to poetical measure, as opposed to verse or metrical composition. See poetry.

noun. Hence Commonplace ideas or discourse.

noun. In liturgics, a hymn sung after the gradual, originating from a practice of setting words to the jubilatio of the alleluia.

noun. An oration; a story.

Relating to or consisting of prose; prosaic; not poetic; hence, plain; commonplace.

adjective. Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse.

adjective. Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic.

noun. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.

noun. Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

noun. A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.

transitive verb. To write in prose.

transitive verb. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.

intransitive verb. To write prose.

noun. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.

verb. to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way

noun. matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

noun. ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

"For practical convenience three main sorts of rhythmic prose may be distinguished: (1) _characteristic prose_, or that in which no regularity (coincidence) is easily appreciable; (2) _cadenced prose_, or that in which the regularity is perceptible, but unobtrusive, and (3) _metrical prose_, or that in which the regularity is so noticeable as to be unpleasing."

poeticize  poetry  verse  versify  

prosaic  prose style  prosody  

prosed  prosing  

expressive style  style  

Bose  Brose  Goes  Joes  Jos  

ballad  biography  comedy  composition  dialogue  

banality  beprose  bromide  causerie  chat  

sequence  

prosed  proses  prosing