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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
elegize .
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Examples
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As if elegized by long i's pillowed upon sibilance, "with a smile and silence, he died" — itself a kind of sylleptic slipped gear for "with a smile and in silence."
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Henry Hyde, leaving Congress not in disgrace as he should have seven years ago, but elegized as a beloved elder statesman, remembers his own part in that attempted coup with pride.
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Henry Hyde, leaving Congress not in disgrace as he should have seven years ago, but elegized as a beloved elder statesman, remembers his own part in that attempted coup with pride.
Lance Mannion: 2005
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Most recently, Donald Justice gracefully elegized James in his sonnet "Henry James at the Pacific" (January, 1986).
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Most recently, Donald Justice gracefully elegized James in his sonnet "Henry James at the Pacific" (January, 1986).
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Walt Whitman elegized Lincoln as 'the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands.'
The Central Man Bloom, Harold 1984
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Arnold, as we know, loved and elegized one Dean of Westminster.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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Arnold, as we know, loved and elegized one Dean of Westminster.
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Plato to be pitied or laughd at? must he be elegized or odified? or be sung in villainous ballads to a scurvey tune?
Letter 68 1793
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I had written thus far, and perhaps should have elegized on for
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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