rhapsodize verb4 •To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).How can one rhapsodise over a view when surrounded by beer-stained tables? How lose one’s self in historical reverie amid the odour of roast veal and spinach? — 1900 •To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.“Listen, my pearl,” he rhapsodized. “I have money now and you shall have dresses like rainbows, a gold tiara and slave girls to wait on you […]” — 1923 •To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.The great poetry of the opening chapter of Ulysses […] amplifies and rhapsodizes the world with an unlooked-for accuracy and transport. — 1982 •To perform a rhapsody.[…] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730. — 1824 formsrhapsodized · rhapsodizing · rhapsodizes