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        "From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).",
        "Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses."
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              "mean": "A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.\nSynonym: poetry\nRestoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse."
            },
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              "mean": "Poetic form in general.\nThe restrictions of verse have been steadily relaxed over time."
            },
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              "mean": "One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.\nSynonym: stanza\nNote the shift in tone between the first verse and the second."
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              "mean": "A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)\nHolonym: chapter"
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              "mean": "(music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To compose verses.\na. 1587 (date written),  Phillip Sidney ,  An Apologie for Poetrie. , London:     for Henry Olney, , published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: , 1 April 1868, →OCLC:It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :playing on pipes of corn and versing love"
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              "mean": "(transitive, figurative) to educate about, to teach about.\nHe versed us in the finer points of category theory.\n1918,  W B Maxwell,  chapter XXII, in  The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.  Next day she  tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary."
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              "mean": "(colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.\nVerse him, G!\n2007 March 26,  Nick Green,  “Being illiterate and innumerate shouldn’t shame anyone”, in  Sydney Morning Herald‎:When teams play now they \"verse\" each other. \"Who did you verse?\" (Forget \"whom\". It's long dead.) \"We're versing you next.\" Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of \"versus\" more keenly than many.\n2009 August 11,  CrazyGunner ,  “Verse me on Onslaught”, in  Nintendo Life‎:If you've got Onslaught let me know and I'll verse you.\n2020 April 9,  AgentPigeon122 ,  “The Graphic Organizer Information”, in  Course Hero‎:Ariel is worried for the race, because she is versing her best competitor, and she really wants to win."
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              "mean": "verse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\nverse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\nverse at OneLook Dictionary Search"
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