panegyrical
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As Mahomet-Ebn-Mansour commences all his poems with a eulogy of the horse, so Niels Andersen prefaced all his narratives with a panegyrical enumeration of the qualities of the whale.
From Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote
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 Isaac Disraeli
The first portion consists of a panegyrical oration in Latin by Justus de Justis, on John Chedworth, archdeacon of Lincoln, dated at Verona 16th July, 1468.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
Consider what Rome is;” and now he had got into the magnificent commonplace, out of his last panegyrical oration with which he had primed himself before he set out.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
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
