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el⋅e⋅gi⋅ac
[el-i-jahy-uh
k, -ak, i-lee-jee-ak] 
–adjective Also, el⋅e⋅gi⋅a⋅cal.
| 1. | used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. |
| 2. | expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains. |
| 3. | Classical Prosody. noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot. |
–noun
| 4. | an elegiac or distich verse. |
| 5. | a poem in such distichs or verses. |
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| el·e·gi·ac (ěl'ə-jī'ək, ĭ-lē'jē-āk') adj.
[Late Latin elegīacus, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia, elegy; see elegy.] el'e·gi'ac n., el'e·gi'a·cal adj., el'e·gi'a·cal·ly adv. |
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Elegiac
E*le"gi*ac\ (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]giaque. See Elegy.]1. 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. 2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.Elegiac
E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse.
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