elegize

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

• 1821 Lord Byron, Imitation

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

• 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.