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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

elegiacus

, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.

élégiaque

. See

Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation;

as, an

elegiac

lay;

elegiac

strains.

Elegiac

griefs, and songs of love.

Mrs. Browning.

Used in elegies;

as,

elegiac

verse; the

elegiac

distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

Noun.

Elegiac verse.

Adj.

[Low L. elegiacus. See Elegy.] Belonging to elegy; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

Used in elegies. Pentameter verse is elegiac.