panegyrical

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Becattini, in his panegyrical biography of Pius VI., declares that it was the worst after that of Turkey.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Pope sent this ironical, panegyrical criticism on Phillips anonymously to the “Guardian,” and Steele not perceiving the drift, hesitated to publish it, till Pope advised it.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

I met with it among the host of panegyrical verses prefixed to Master Tom Coryate's Crudities, published in 1611.

From Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

A French panegyrical poem, presented to Queen Elizabeth, in 1586, by Georges de la Motthe, a French refugee; with a prefatory address in prose.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn