encomiastic
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Both are encomiastic, and describe the character and work of the deceased with considerable fulness and beauty of expression.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."
From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
How splendid—what taste—how very beautiful—so elegant—so massive—so chaste! and fifty other encomiastic phrases.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Carl Van Vechten
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