Definition for E-LE'GI-AC

E-LE'GI-AC, a. [Low L. elegiacus. See Elegy.]

  1. Belonging to elegy; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Gay.
  2. Used in elegies. Pentameter verse is elegiac. Roscommon.

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