encomiastic

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

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 Francis Augustus Cox

The fifty "sessions" of Hariri, which are written in rhymed prose interspersed with poetry, contain oratorical, poetical, moral, encomiastic, and satirical discourses, which only the merest thread holds together.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

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