elegiac

elegiac
/el'i juy"euhk, -ak, i lee"jee ak'/, adj. Also, elegiacal.
1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
2. expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
3. Class. Pros. noting a distich 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.
n.
4. an elegiac or distich verse.
5. a poem in such distichs or verses.
[1575-85; ( < MF) < L elegiacus < Gk elegeiakós. See ELEGY, -AC]

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