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elegize

verb

Etymology

From elegy + -ize.

  1. derived from ἐλεγείᾱ
  2. derived from elegīa
  3. borrowed from elegie
  4. suffixed as elegize — “elegy + ize”

Definitions

  1. To compose an elegy for.

    • Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.
    • The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)
    • Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.

  2. To compose an elegy.

  3. To lament, as if in an elegy.

    • He elegized his lost comrades.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA