elegizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

elegize (third-person singular simple present elegizes, present participle elegizing, simple past and past participle elegized)

1. (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
2. (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
3. (transitive) To lament, as if in an elegy.

   Synonyms: grieve, mourn; see also Thesaurus:lament

   Coordinate term: eulogize

引用

• 1821, Lord Byron, Imitation:

  Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.

• 2001, Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship:

  Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.