Elegize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Elegize is a verb meaning (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
Meaning
(transitive) To compose an elegy for.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
- (transitive) To lament, as if in an elegy.
Example Sentences
He elegized his lost comrades.
Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.
Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.
The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)
Word Forms
- elegizes
- elegizing
- elegized
Synonyms for elegize
Depending on context, synonyms include grieve, mourn, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eulogize, epitaphize, epithalamize, lyricize, poetize, epistolize.
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