- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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