panegyrical
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Becattini, in his panegyrical biography of Pius VI., declares that it was the worst after that of Turkey.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
The drama, being at length formed, naturally adhered to the first division of poetry, the satirical and panegyrical, which made tragedy and comedy.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Thus closed a life to which the panegyrical exclamation of Milton happily applies: O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
We need not go any further to prove the entire falsehood of the account commonly given by the panegyrical rhetoricians of Athens.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
To Mr. Swinburne, on the contrary, all these panegyrical estimates savour of monstrous and intolerable exaggeration.
From Studies in Literature by John Morley
