v. [f. SONNET sb.]
1. intr. To compose a sonnet or sonnets.
1798. Charlotte Smith, Yng. Philos., III. 74. Yours from Upwood … has tempted me to sonnetize myself.
1821. New Monthly Mag., I. 647. They must … scratch head, bite nail, and sonnettize.
1821. Blackw. Mag., VIII. 541. Let green-sick ladies sonnetize with Bowles.
2. trans. To celebrate in, make the subject of, a sonnet or sonnets.
1799. Southey, Eng. Eclogues, Poet. Wks. 1838, III. 68. Bruin-Bear! Now could I sonnetize thy piteous plight.
1824. in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1825), 232. The Cocknies heretofore have devoted their time to sonnetizing each other.
Hence Sonnetizing vbl. sb.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., VI. 630. [He] has a good ear for sonnetising.
