panegyrical

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A somewhat panegyrical biography�� and a scholarly travel book�� concerning Edward of Wales are current.

From Time Magazine Archive

Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"—a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.

From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas

It would have strained the ingenuity and the enthusiasm of Claud Halcro himself to have extracted matter for a panegyrical ode on this conversion of "glorious John."

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John

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 Burke, Edmund

As Mahomet-Ebn-Mansour commences all his poems with a eulogy of the horse, so Niels Andersen prefaced all his narratives with a panegyrical enumeration of the qualities of the whale.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)