Look up: elegiac

1. elegiac
   [adj] - resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy 2. [adj] - expressing sorrow often for something past
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2. Elegiac
   E·le'gi·ac adjective [ Latin elegiacus , Greek ...: confer French élégiaque . See Elegy .] 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegia...
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3. Elegiac
   E·le'gi·ac noun Elegiac verse.
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4. elegiac
   adjective expressing sorrow often for something past; `an elegiac lament for youthful ideals`
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5. elegiac
   adjective resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; `an elegiac poem on a friend`s death`
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6. Elegiac
   • (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. • (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. • (n.) Elegiac verse.
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7. elegiac
   a quatrain with the rhyme scheme abab written in iambic pentameter. See also Distich.
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8. Elegiac
   `Elegiac` refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. Because the hexameter line is in the s...
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