encomiastic

From Ancient Greek ἐγκωμιαστικός (enkōmiastikós).

• IPA^(key): /ɛnkoʊmiˈæstɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æstɪk

encomiastic (comparative more encomiastic, superlative most encomiastic)

1. Of or relating to an encomiast.
2. Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.

   an encomiastic address or discourse

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 39, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     [H]is Excellency began drinking wine forthwith and gazing round upon the company, now with the most wonderful frowns, and anon with the blandest smiles, and hiccupped remarks encomiastic of the drink which he was imbibing.

   • 2001, Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     As Philodemus indicated in antiquity, encomia of Busiris [by Isocrates] belong to this category of "paradoxical" or "adoxographic" treatises, which flourished in nearly all periods of ancient Greek literature. These were speeches written in the encomiastic style on subjects that were immediately recognizable to ancient audiences as vile, trivial, ridiculous, or otherwise unsuited to praise.

• encomiastically

encomiastic (plural encomiastics)

1. A panegyric.
   • 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:

     I thank you , Master Compass, for your short Encomiastic

• cosmetician

From encomiu +‎ -astic.

encomiastic m or n (feminine singular encomiastică, masculine plural encomiastici, feminine and neuter plural encomiastice)

1. eulogistic, laudatory