Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bestowing praise; commendatory; laudatory; eulogistic: as, an encomiastic address or discourse.
- n. An encomium.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to an encomiast.
- adj. Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.
- n. A panegyric.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory.
- n. A panegyric.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. formally expressing praise
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἐγκωμιαστικός. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“John Dryden considered "the great as entitled to encomiastic homage," wrote a censorious Samuel Johnson.”
“Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7).”
“After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him.”
“In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.”
“This prose anthology includes a nicely annotated Defence with an outline of its encomiastic structure and marginalia to help keep the outline in mind.”
“These encomiastic phrases of the pious nun's are quoted by Blanco García”
“Besides, independent of everything else, what man would so outrage all decorum as to call himself the admiration of the age? for so is Grammont extolled in the Memoirs, with a variety of other encomiastic expressions; although, perhaps, such vanity has not been without example.”
“Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses:”
“Johnson afterwards pronounced it to be "a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism;" and”
“They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘encomiastic’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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NTDW2
yawp, amidships, smug, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, whit, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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GRE
GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 124 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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More Words I Should Have Learned for ...
emetic, emend, emollient, emolument, encomiastic, aeon, epaulet, epistemology, eulogy, euphony, evince, exchequer and 97 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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lambent, efflux, extricate, sublimate, usurpation, subsume, tectorial, languorous, lackadaisical, saturnine, eudaimonia, intransigence and 26 more...
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Echo
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ethos, ellipsis, eudaimonia, egregious, eidolon, effulgent, eventide, emmet, epicureanism, eponym, errata, encore and 41 more...
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set 11
dutiful, factotum, waif, seminal, sleazy, exacting, anodyne, bland, cozen, assay, falter, pontificial and 47 more...
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Max
Max Beerbohm: specifically The Happy Hypocrite, 'a fairy tale for tired men', 1897; then Seven Men, 1919, expanded 1950
inobnoxious, homuncule, box-mate, operette, irremeable, mask-maker, initiative, ladies'-feet, honeycup, derry-dock, dewberry, mensiversary and 8 more...
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ichikawa's list
words I'm interested in inserting into my vocabulary? maybe? I don't really get wordie yet.
gadarene, girandole, ana, turgid, physiognomy, encomiastic, vatic, sciolism, edentulous, recrudesence, vitiate, argosy and 2 more...
Tweets
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qroqqa Yesterday an eager homunculus named L— struck foot across this threshold, sputtering encomiastic cackle.
—Max Beerbohm, 'Felix Argallo and Walter Ledgett' (in a letter purporting to be written by Meredith) Aug 3, 2009