v. [f. ELEGY + -IZE.]

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  1.  intr. a. To write an elegy; also const. upon. b. To write in a mournful strain.

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1702.  C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. I. iii. (1852), 313. His death gave the same gentleman occasion thus to elegize upon him.

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1754.  H. Walpole, Lett., I. 329 (D.). I … should have elegized on for a page or two farther.

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1886.  Edin. Rev., July, 155. When … Propertius and Tibullus elegised.

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  2.  trans. To write an elegy upon.

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1809.  Byron, Eng. Bards, 266. The bard who soars to elegise an ass.

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a. 1845.  Hood, Poems (1846), II. 66. Whose late, last voice must elegise the whole.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. X. ii. 590. He elegises poor Adrienne Lecouvreur, the Actress.

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