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

Both are encomiastic, and describe the character and work of the deceased with considerable fulness and beauty of expression.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

Let us now have before us “The King of Yvetot,” with an appropriate contrast to it afterward supplied in one of these encomiastic pieces.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

There is no effort to conceal any facts which may be supposed to weaken the general impression, or to introduce explanatory or encomiastic statements which may be thought to strengthen and enhance it.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus