Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To compose an elegy.
- intransitive verb To compose an elegy upon or for.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To write or compose elegies; celebrate or lament after the style of an elegy; bewail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To compose an
elegy (for someone) - verb To
praise (someone) as if in an elegy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb compose an elegy
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Examples
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Disciples of sorts, they would imitate and elegize the "breath-force" of an old master's brushwork, his aesthetic doctrine, and his way of seeing nature -- with a devotional zeal bordering on religious passion.
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