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eleˈgiacal, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
†1. Of metre: = elegiac 1. Obs.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. viii. 17 a, Of Meters there bee..that hath their name..of the nomber of the fete, as Exameter and Pentameter which is also called Elegiacal. 1583Stanyhurst Poems (Arb.) 125 The heroical and the elegiacal enterlaced one with the oother.
2. Of the nature of an elegy, pertaining to elegies. arch. Cf. elegiac 2.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 769 An Elegiacall or sorrowfull Epitaph. 1640T. Carew Poems Wks. (1824) 92 An elegiacall letter upon the death of the king of Sweden. 1846Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. II. 294 Study this higher elegiacal strain. |