| 单词 | elegiac |
| 释义 | elegiac /el'i juy"euhk, -ak, i lee"jee ak'/, adj. Also, elegiacal. 1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. 2. expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains. 3. Class. Pros. noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot. n. 4. an elegiac or distich verse. 5. a poem in such distichs or verses. [1575-85; ( < MF) < L elegiacus < Gk elegeiakós. See ELEGY, -AC] |
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