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 trochecize every thing.’
