a. [f. prec. + -AL.]
† 1. Of metre: = ELEGIAC 1. Obs.
1546. Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., I. viii. 17 a. Of Meters there bee … that hath their name … of the nomber of the fete, as Exameter and Pentameter which is also called Elegiacal.
1583. Stanyhurst, Poems (Arb.), 125. The heroical and the elegiacal enterlaced one with the oother.
2. Of the nature of an elegy, pertaining to elegies. arch. Cf. ELEGIAC 2.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 769. An Elegiacall or sorrowfull Epitaph.
1640. T. Carew, Poems, Wks. (1824), 92. An elegiacall letter upon the death of the king of Sweden.
1846. Landor, Exam. Shaks., Wks. II. 294. Study this higher elegiacal strain.
