lyricize

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lyr·i·cize

 (lĭr′ĭ-sīz′)
v. lyr·i·cized, lyr·i·ciz·ing, lyr·i·ciz·es
v.intr.
1. Music To write or sing lyrics.
2. To write lyrically or in a lyric style.
v.tr.
To treat (something) lyrically; put into lyric style.
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lyricize

(ˈlɪrɪˌsaɪz) or

lyricise

vb (intr)
to write or sing lyrics
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Matching up to his great predecessors, Moser possesses a self-confident and controlled expressive tone and tends to lyricise even the more heroic passages in the first movement.
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It is possible to have lyric high notes and dramatic low notes, but in the beginning train for the opposite, especially to lyricise low notes.
In striving to achieve what Pallasmaa calls 'a radical ordinariness', it should aim, like Pope Sixtus' ancient fountain, to lyricise the social transactions of everyday life.