Elegiac
elegiac (?; 277), a. (L.elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F. elegiaque. 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.
elegiac (?), n. Elegiacverse.
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