elegize

Meanings

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

present singular third person elegizes · participle present elegizing · participle past elegized · past elegized

transitiveTo compose an elegy for.
Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.
1821, Lord Byron, Imitation
2 more examples
The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)
1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 439
Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.
2001, Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship
intransitiveTo compose an elegy.
transitiveTo lament, as if in an elegy.
He elegized his lost comrades.
Synonyms: grieve, mourn, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, bewail