elegious
adj1
Obsolete Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
- If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5:
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