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verb-intransitive. To compose an elegy.

v. To compose an elegy upon or for.

v. To compose an elegy (for someone)

v. To praise (someone) as if in an elegy

v. To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

To write or compose elegies; celebrate or lament after the style of an elegy; bewail.

v. compose an elegy

"Disciples of sorts, they would imitate and elegize the "breath-force" of an old master's brushwork, his aesthetic doctrine, and his way of seeing nature -- with a devotional zeal bordering on religious passion."

elegized    elegizes    elegizing   

poetise    verse    versify    poetize   

bewail