Definition/Meaning of elegize

• English - Verb: elegize ( third-person singular simple present elegizes , present participle elegizing , simple past and past participle elegized ) To compose an elegy (for someone) To praise (someone) as if in an elegy
• English - Quotations: 1821 Lord Byron - Imitation Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass . 2001 Dennis Kezar - Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ , the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed