panegyrical

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A somewhat panegyrical biography�� and a scholarly travel book�� concerning Edward of Wales are current.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the council of Nicaea in 325 he took a prominent part, occupying a seat at the emperor’s right hand, and being appointed to deliver the panegyrical oration in his honour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

He is perhaps weakest, like all poets with the signal exception of Dryden, when he is panegyrical.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

There is not a speech, a poem, essay, a panegyrical oration in praise of either Athenian liberty or Greek love which does not tell the tale of this heroic friendship.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

The authority for this statement, as for most others concerning Ascham’s early life, is Edward Grant, headmaster of Westminster, who collected and edited his letters and delivered a panegyrical oration on his life in 1576.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various