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elegise

elegise is the alternative spelling of elegize.

Meaning of elegize

Verb

elegize (third-person singular simple present elegizes, present participle elegizing, simple past and past participle elegized)

  1. (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
    • Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.1821, Lord Byron, Imitation
  2. (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
  3. (transitive) To lament, as if in an elegy.
    • He elegized his lost comrades.

Forms of elegise

third-person singular presentelegises
present participleelegising
past participleelegised
pastelegised

Questions about elegise

What is elegise the alternative spelling of?
Elegise is the alternative spelling of elegize.

Words near elegise in the dictionary

  1. elegiasts
  2. elegies
  3. elegiographer
  4. elegiographers
  5. elegious
  6. elegise
  7. elegised
  8. elegises
  9. elegising
  10. elegist
  11. elegists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elegise (page history and authors); elegize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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