intransitive verb. To compose an elegy.

intransitive verb. To compose an elegy upon or for.

To write or compose elegies; celebrate or lament after the style of an elegy; bewail.

transitive verb. To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.

verb. To compose an elegy (for someone)

verb. To praise (someone) as if in an elegy

verb. compose an elegy

"Disciples of sorts, they would imitate and elegize the "breath-force" of an old master's brushwork, his aesthetic doctrine, and his way of seeing nature -- with a devotional zeal bordering on religious passion."

poetise  poetize  verse  versify  

bemoan  bewail  bewail  climb Parnassus  compose poetry  

elegized  elegizes  elegizing