elegize

From elegy + -ize.

elegize (third-person singular simple present elegizes, present participle elegizing, simple past and past participle elegized)

1. (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
   • 1821, Lord Byron, Imitation:

     Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.

   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 439:

     The destruction of the community in Worms, set to "the tune of Rabbi Simon of Prague" was elegized by Isaac Liberman of Worms (1696)

   • 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.

2. (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
3. (transitive) To lament, as if in an elegy.

   Synonyms: grieve, mourn; see also Thesaurus:lament

   Coordinate term: eulogize

   He elegized his lost comrades.