encomiastic
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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
It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
There is no effort to conceal any facts which may be supposed to weaken the general impression, or to introduce explanatory or encomiastic statements which may be thought to strengthen and enhance it.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus
At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
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