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from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of half an elegiac pentameter followed by an iambic dimeter; being or constituting an elegiambus (which see): as, an elegiambic verse.
- noun A verse consisting of a dactylic penthemim followed by an iambic dimeter; an elegiambus (which see).
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