encomiastic

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

A lofty but rude cairn marks the Admiral's first footprints on the shores of the wreck-strewn Bahamas, and many a monument or encomiastic inscription denotes spots sacred to the history of his indomitable resolve.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey

Let us now have before us “The King of Yvetot,” with an appropriate contrast to it afterward supplied in one of these encomiastic pieces.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Carl Van Vechten

If the Dutch Government, stimulated to gratitude for the encomiastic character of the present book, were to offer me my choice of the Ryks Museum pictures I should not hesitate a moment.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.