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Definition of Elegized
1. elegize [v] - See also: elegize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegized
Literary usage of Elegized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"The other person elegized and eulogized is " Mr. Charles Rider, Student in the
art of Limning, or Picture-drawing." As he was only a " student" at the time ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"The poet elegized died in 1723 at the age of twenty-eight. Within the few years
preceding his death he wrote the slight occasional poems in heroic couplets ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1917)
"Greatness & goodness elegized, in a poem, upon the much lamented decease of the
honourable & vertuous Madam Hannah Sewall, late consort of the Honourable ..."
4. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole (1903)
"I had written thus far, and perhaps should have elegized on for a page or two
farther, when Harry, who has no idea of the dignity of grief, blundered in, ..."
5. Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature (1887)
"How beautifully would antique poetry, reminiscent of Hylas, have elegized over
this event, have mourned the drawing- down of the immortal youth to the ..."
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