1. to write or compose an elegy for; to lament in verse
Usage: literary
2. to express sorrow or mourning for someone or something
Usage: formal

Examples

• The poet elegized his fallen comrades in a moving tribute.
• She elegized the passing of the old traditions in her latest work.
• Writers often elegize lost love in their most personal poems.
• The community gathered to elegize their beloved leader.
• He elegized the destruction of the historic building in verse.
• The song elegizes a simpler time that has passed away.