Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bestowing praise; commendatory; laudatory; eulogistic: as, an encomiastic address or discourse.
- noun An encomium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory.
- noun A panegyric.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to an
encomiast . - adjective Bestowing
praise ;eulogistic ;laudatory . - noun A
panegyric .
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- adjective formally expressing praise
Etymologies
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Examples
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John Dryden considered "the great as entitled to encomiastic homage," wrote a censorious Samuel Johnson.
A Protest Without Rhyme or Reason Eric Felten 2011
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Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7).
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008
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In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
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After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him.
Symposiacs 2004
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In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
Symposiacs 2004
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After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him.
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This prose anthology includes a nicely annotated Defence with an outline of its encomiastic structure and marginalia to help keep the outline in mind.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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These encomiastic phrases of the pious nun's are quoted by Blanco García
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Besides, independent of everything else, what man would so outrage all decorum as to call himself the admiration of the age? for so is Grammont extolled in the Memoirs, with a variety of other encomiastic expressions; although, perhaps, such vanity has not been without example.
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Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses:
English literary criticism Various
qroqqa commented on the word encomiastic
Yesterday an eager homunculus named L— struck foot across this threshold, sputtering encomiastic cackle.
—Max Beerbohm, 'Felix Argallo and Walter Ledgett' (in a letter purporting to be written by Meredith)
August 3, 2009