encomiastic
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It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
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
Johnson afterwards pronounced it to be "a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism;" and Malone quoted it as an admirable character of Shakspere.
From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various
This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.
From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin
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
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