Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Versify

Versify , intransitive verb

[Old English versifien, French versifier, Latin versificare; versus a verse + -ficare to make. See Verse, and -fy.]

To make verses.
I'll versify in spite, and do my best. — Dryden

Versify , transitive verb

1.
To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.
I'll versify the truth, not poetize. — Daniel
2.
To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the Psalms. — Chaucer