verb
- to write or speak about someone or something in a mournful or regretful way; to compose an elegy for
Usage: British spelling; American spelling is 'elegize'; transitive or intransitive
Examples
- The poet elegised the loss of her childhood home in a series of verses.
- He elegised over the passing of the old theater before it was demolished.
- Critics elegised the decline of traditional craftsmanship in modern society.
- She elegised the death of her mentor in a touching tribute.
- The author elegised the beauty of a vanishing landscape.
- They gathered to elegise the end of an era.