a. Obs. rare. [f. ELEGY + -OUS.] Resembling an elegy; hence, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful.
1632. Quarles, Div. Fancies, IV. x. Th’affrighted heav’ns sent down elegious Thunder. Ibid. (1635), Embl., V. i. 5 (1658), 250. If your elegious breath should hap to rouze A happy tear.
