1. wrote or composed an elegy for; mourned or lamented in verse
Usage: past tense of elegize; literary

Examples

• The poet elegized his fallen comrades in a moving tribute.
• She elegized the passing of the old traditions in her latest work.
• The ancient bards elegized heroes who died in battle.
• He elegized the lost landscape of his childhood home.
• The writer elegized the end of an era in her final poem.
• They elegized the victims of the tragedy in a public ceremony.