"Elegiac" is a word in ENGLISH
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or
couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive;
expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Elegiac verse.
The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain.
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An old lady saw a little boy with a fishing-rod over his shoulder and a jar of tadpoles in his hand walking through the park one Sunday. "Little boy," she called, "don't you know you shouldn't go fishing on a Sunday?" "I'm not going fishing, ma'am," he called back, "I'm going home."
To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
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