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n.
A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
pl.
of Elegy
a.
Elegiac.
a.
Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech.
n.
One who composes elegies.
a.
Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
n.
That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
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Alt. of Elegancy
adv.
In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
n.
An elegist.
a.
Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
n.
A write of elegies.
a.
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
v. t.
To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
a.
Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
n.
The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.
n.
Elegiac verse.
n.
A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance.
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Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
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Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
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