panegyrize

It is the fashion among the poets of Martinia to panegyrize the tails of eminent monkeys, as it is with us to eulogize the beauty of women.

From Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by John Gierlow

He makes mountains out of millstones, and would panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him.

From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew

It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full.

From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles

Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.

From Problems in Greek history by John Pentland Mahaffy

Obama’s campaign was panegyrized for its digital sophistication.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017

Mao Tse-tung, nearly 71, is panegyrized by his subjects as "the sun in our hearts," but he is setting fast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the virtues of the Queen, and the noble qualities of the Prince of Wales are panegyrized and toasted, and hurrah'd at every public dinner where Englishmen gather together.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

They strove with their full strength against those conditions panegyrized and poetized by the smirking optimists of their time, and thereby incurred the enmity of pedants and self-sufficient purists,—were denounced and denied, belittled and belied.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

This sacrifice of love to loyalty is panegyrized by a Castilian chronicler as "a rare achievement, far transcending any act of heroism of which antiquity could boast."

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

He began panegyrizing Uncle Tom; and this led to a discussion of the ground of its unprecedented success.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Far from panegyrizing his own time, he criticizes it without mercy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

I may have too much contented myself with panegyrizing his genius, and thinking the objections to it of no ultimate importance.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

De Quincey, on the other hand, had read it, and both in his writings and conversation, was in the habit of alluding to, quoting, and panegyrizing it as more than equal to Wordsworth's other achievements.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various