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Definition of Elegize
1. Verb. Compose an elegy.
Category relationships: Poesy, Poetry, Verse
Generic synonyms: Poetise, Poetize, Verse, Versify
Derivative terms: Elegy
Definition of Elegize
1. v. t. To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
Definition of Elegize
1. Verb. To compose an elegy (for someone) ¹
2. Verb. To praise (someone) as if in an elegy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elegize
1. to write an elegy [v -GIZED, -GIZING, -GIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegize
Literary usage of Elegize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"If Inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a pixy for a muse, Yet none
in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass ..."
2. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather, Samuel Gardner Drake, Thomas Robbins (1853)
"... to do every one good, until bis death gave the same gentleman >n thus to
elegize upon him: Now may celestial spirits sing yet higher, Since one more'a ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1817)
"poetical effusions of the latter on the premature death of friend, if such he
was: but a living poet may elegize at departed poet, without implying much ..."
4. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"XXV ' I-adies (said he) if your unhappy ears, Admit such sad disasters to have
room, If by your looks your inward thoughts appears, You'll elegize this ..."
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