rhapsodize

verb rhapsodizes · rhapsodizing · rhapsodized · rhapsodise

1. British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something). The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.

   Similar: rave

2. British, English, Oxford, US, transitive To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm. “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”
3. British, English, Oxford, US, transitive To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody. The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]
4. British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive 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.