/el'i juy"euhk, -ak, i lee"jee ak'/ , adj. Also, elegiacal .
1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
2. expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
3. Class. Pros. noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.
n.
4. an elegiac or distich verse.
5. a poem in such distichs or verses.
[ 1575-85; ( elegiacus elegeiakós. See ELEGY, -AC ]