encomiastic
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A lofty but rude cairn marks the Admiral's first footprints on the shores of the wreck-strewn Bahamas, and many a monument or encomiastic inscription denotes spots sacred to the history of his indomitable resolve.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.
From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
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
The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
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