elegize
verbEtymology From elegy + -ize.
1
To compose an elegy for.
- Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.1821, Lord Byron, Imitation:
- The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 439:
1 more example
- Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.2001, Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship:
2
To compose an elegy.
3
To lament, as if in an elegy.
- He elegized his lost comrades.