elegiast

From elegy +‎ -ast.

elegiast (plural elegiasts)

1. (archaic) An elegist (maker of elegies).
   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

     The great fault of these elegiasts is, that they are in despair for griefs that give the sensible part of mankind very little pain

• “elegiast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.