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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl. {Elegies}. [L. elegia, Gr. [?], fem. sing. (cf. [?], prop., neut. pl. of [?] a distich in elegiac verse), fr. [?] elegiac, fr. [?] a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. --Shak. | |
