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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: elegiac adj 1: resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death" 2: expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
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