| 释义 |
elegize, v.|ˈɛlɪdʒaɪz|
[f. elegy + -ize.]
1. intr.
a. To write an elegy; also const. upon;
b. To write in a mournful strain.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. i. iii. (1852) 313 His death gave the same gentleman occasion thus to elegize upon him. 1754H. Walpole Lett. I. 329 (D.), I..should have elegized on for a page or two farther. 1886Edin. Rev. July 155 Propertius and Tibullus elegised.
2. trans. To write an elegy upon.
1809Byron Bards & Rev. 266 The bard who soars to elegise an ass. a1845Hood Poems (1846) II. 66 Whose late, last voice must elegise the whole. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. x. ii. 590 He elegises poor Adrienne Lecouvreur, the Actress. |