Ec″logue (?), n. [L. ecloga, Gr. � a selection, choice extracts, fr. � to pick out, choose out; � out + � to gather, choose: cf. F. égloque, écloque. See Ex-, and Legend.] A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.