encomiastic

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In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The fifty "sessions" of Hariri, which are written in rhymed prose interspersed with poetry, contain oratorical, poetical, moral, encomiastic, and satirical discourses, which only the merest thread holds together.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

But he is careful to recapitulate all his services, and the encomiastic notices they had drawn from various quarters, while he details his losses with the most elaborate minuteness.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

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