encomiastic
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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.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
Johnson afterwards pronounced it to be "a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism;" and Malone quoted it as an admirable character of Shakspere.
From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various
They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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