Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To adapt for performance with singing and musical accompaniment; set to music.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of musicalise.

Etymologies

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musical +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • I most definitely would “blame” it on the need native speakers to musicalize their speech and facilitate communication.

    C is for Conditional (the Third) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • But Adamo's ideas, whether you buy his assessment or not, make for a good serendipitous frame — because I think one of Verdi's greatest achievements is something that Adamo seems to be hinting at: an impeccable skill for distinguishing between the most obvious way to musicalize a scene and the most direct way.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • But Adamo's ideas, whether you buy his assessment or not, make for a good serendipitous frame — because I think one of Verdi's greatest achievements is something that Adamo seems to be hinting at: an impeccable skill for distinguishing between the most obvious way to musicalize a scene and the most direct way.

    In core scolpiti ho quegli accenti! Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Some stage adaptations simply musicalize moments that worked perfectly well in dialogue, and this is one of them.

    Little Red Hat Jaime J. Weinman 2009

  • Hm, maybe they'll musicalize Apuleius' Golden Ass someday.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • Hm, maybe they'll musicalize Apuleius' Golden Ass someday.

    Atia vs Servilia 2006

  • With one undersea movie-to-musical already in the works, the Pixar subsidiary will now musicalize Finding Nemo.

    'Young Frankenstein': Broadway Netflixes some inspiration | EW.com 2006

  • How many of the pretty female names which musicalize his love songs, in syllables that breathe of the sweet south and melt like kisses in the utterance, are representative of real girls, we cannot guess; with none of them except perhaps one, who died young, does he seem to have been really in love.

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • That image set a bell off in their heads and, from there, they set out to musicalize the DreamWorks movie.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com James Sims 2011

  • When a man can masterfully musicalize big bad wolf; well, who knows what else he's capable of?

    The Spark of Yahoo! 2010

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