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or CONFECTION, is a pharmacopeial preparation. It is solid, but of soft consistence, and contains sugar or honey, impregnated with some more active body. The best known is the confection of senna, ” 119 ELEGIT ELE’GIT, in English law, a writ by which a creditor who has obtained a judgment against a debtor, and is hence called the judgment-creditor, may be put in po e ion of the lands and tenements of the person against whom the judgment is obtained, called the judgment-debtor, until the debt is fully paid. The writ is addre ed to the sheriff, who enforces it. The writ of elegit was first authorized by the Statute of Westminster the Second, which gave the judgment credit or the right to choose between @ writ against the debtor’s land, and until 1883 his goods also, and an execution by writ against the latter’s person or chattels. The new writ, representing the choice of the creditor, was therefore called an elegit, Lat., he has chosen. See FIERI FACIAS. EL’/EGY (Gr. elegos, mourning, song), &@ mournful and plaintive poem 14) Head ot African Blephant or funeral song, or any serious poem of a melancholy contemplative kind. In cla ic poetry what is known as elegiac verse is composed of couplets consisting of alternate hexameter and pentameter lines. Famous English elegies are Daphnaida by Spenser, Lycidas by Milton, Adonais by Shelley and Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold, all commemorating, under cla ical! names, friends of the poets. Tennyson’s In Memoriam is another elegy; other famous ones are the Hlegu written in a Country Churchyard by Gray, and Swinburne’s Ave atque Vale in memory of Baudelaire.