panegyrical

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

It would have strained the ingenuity and the enthusiasm of Claud Halcro himself to have extracted matter for a panegyrical ode on this conversion of "glorious John."

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John

Warton admitted but three supreme English poets—Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton—and he vehemently insisted that moral, didactic and panegyrical poetry could never rise above the second class in importance.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

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