Definition of elegiac

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Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains..

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Elegiacal :: Elegiacal (a.) Elegiac.
Epode :: Epode (n.) A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich..
Epicedial :: Epicedial (a.) Elegiac; funereal.
Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains..
Elegiac :: Elegiac (n.) Elegiac verse.
Elegiac :: Elegiac (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter..
Elegize :: Elegize (v. t.) To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
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