elegize

American  

[el-i-jahyz] / ˈɛl ɪˌdʒaɪz /

especially British, elegise

verb (used with object)

elegized, elegizing

1. to lament in or as if in an elegy.

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verb (used without object)

elegized, elegizing

1. to compose an elegy.

elegize British  

/ ˈɛlɪˌdʒaɪz /

verb

1. to compose an elegy or elegies (in memory of)

2. (intr) to write elegiacally

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Other Word Forms

• elegist noun

Etymology

Origin of elegize

First recorded in 1695–1705; eleg(y) + -ize

Example Sentences

Spielberg has chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

If inspiration should her aid refuse To him who takes a Pixy for a muse, Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass The bard who soars to elegize an ass.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)