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Meanings of encomiastic in English

Formally expressing praise.

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Usage of encomiastic in English
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Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses:
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
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To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."]
Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
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In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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He published, soon afterwards, a volume of poems, with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron, the Earl of Dorset.
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
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Of the verses on Oliver's death, in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic, there has been no appearance.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.
Bacon is Shake-Speare / Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promu...
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His works were published in 1651, and to them were prefixed fifty copies of encomiastic verses from the wits and poets of the time.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1
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It may be remarked, that in this elegy, and in most of his encomiastic poems, he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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