elegize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]elegize (third-person singular simple present elegizes, present participle elegizing, simple past and past participle elegized)
- (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
- (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
- (transitive) To praise, as if in an elegy.
Quotations
[edit]- 1821, Lord Byron, Imitation:
- Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.
- 2001, Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship:
- Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.