v. [f. BE- 5 + PROSE sb.] trans. a. To turn into prose. b. To discuss in prose, to ‘prose’ about.
1739. Mallet, Verbal Crit. (R.). To blast all beauty and beprose all rhyme.
1880. Swinburne, Study Shaks., ii. (ed. 2), 151. More plentifully beprosed than ever Rosalind was berhymed.
