Encomiastic

Quick meaning: Encomiastic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to an encomiast.

Meaning

Of or relating to an encomiast.

More Meanings

1. Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.
2. A panegyric.

Example Sentences

an encomiastic address or discourse

I thank you , Master Compass, for your short Encomiastic

[H]is Excellency began drinking wine forthwith and gazing round upon the company, now with the most wonderful frowns, and anon with the blandest smiles, and hiccupped remarks encomiastic of the drink which he was imbibing.

As Philodemus indicated in antiquity, encomia of Busiris [by Isocrates] belong to this category of "paradoxical" or "adoxographic" treatises, which flourished in nearly all periods of ancient Greek literature. These were speeches written in the encomiastic style on subjects that were immediately recognizable to ancient audiences as vile, trivial, ridiculous, or otherwise unsuited to praise.

Word Forms

• encomiastics

Synonyms for encomiastic

Depending on context, synonyms include complimentary, panegyrical, panegyric, eulogistic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include panegyrical, panegyric, eulogistic, complimentary, encomiastical, cometic.

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