Word Study
elegize
CIDE DICTIONARY
elegize, v. t.
To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
elegize, v. (also -ise)
1 intr. (often foll. by upon) write an elegy.
2 intr. write in a mournful strain.
3 tr. write an elegy upon.
1 intr. (often foll. by upon) write an elegy.
2 intr. write in a mournful strain.
3 tr. write an elegy upon.
Derivative
elegist n.
THESAURUS
elegize
bemoan, bewail, climb Parnassus, compose poetry, deplore, dirge, give sorrow words, grieve, keen, knell, lament, lisp in numbers, make immortal verse, moan, mount Pegasus, mourn, poetize, repine, sigh, sing, sing deathless songs, sing the blues, sorrow, verse, versify, weep over, write poetryFor further exploring for "elegize" in Webster Dictionary Online