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Found 2 items, similar to elegiac.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: elegiac
elegiac
adj 1: resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy;
“an elegiac poem on a friend's death”
2: expressing sorrow often for something past;
“an elegiac
lament for youthful ideals”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Elegiac
Elegiac
\E*le"gi*ac\, n.
Elegiac verse.
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Elegiac
\E*le"gi*ac\ (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
['e]l['e]giaque. See
Elegy.]
1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive;
expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay;
elegiac strains.
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Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. --Mrs.
Browning.
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2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or
couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and
pentameter.
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