Hypertext Webster Gateway: "elegiac"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. --Mrs.
Browning.
2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or
couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and
pentameter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n.
Elegiac verse.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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"
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