v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] a. intr. To make ballads. b. trans. To make into a ballad, turn into ballad form. Hence Balladized, Balladizing ppl. a.
1598. Munday & Chettle, Earl Huntingdon, in Hazl., Dodsl. (1874), VIII. 258. Muddy slaves, whose balladising rhymes With words unpolish’d show their brutish thoughts.
1834. Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 384. If I can succeed in balladising this exploit, you shall have the song.
1879. J. P. Collier, Hist. Dram. Poetry, I. 107, note. A balladised Eskdale tradition.
