elegize
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
Definition of elegize
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To compose an elegy for.
“Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.”
“The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)”
“Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.”
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verb
-
(transitive)To compose an elegy for.
“Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.”
“The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)”
“Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.”
- (intransitive)To compose an elegy.
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(transitive)To lament, as if in an elegy.
“He elegized his lost comrades.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From elegy + -ize.
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