ˈtroche(e)ize, v.
[f. trochee + -ize.]
trans. To turn into a trochee, to make trochaic.
| a 1834 Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 319 A dibrach..trocheized..by the arsis or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second. 1907 Omond Eng. Metrists ii. 83 An Italian priest said to him, ‘You dactylize and trocheeize every thing. |