Formally expressing praise.
1 Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses:
2 At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
3 To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."]
4 In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic , the second deliberative, the third judicial.
5 He published, soon afterwards, a volume of poems, with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron, the Earl of Dorset.
6 Of the verses on Oliver's death, in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance.
7 This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.
8 His works were published in 1651, and to them were prefixed fifty copies of encomiastic verses from the wits and poets of the time.
9 It may be remarked, that in this elegy, and in most of his encomiastic poems, he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes.
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