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  • adjective Alternative form of eulogistic.

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Examples

  • It was just when I had finished writing the story of Elfrida that I happened to see in my morning paper a highly eulogistical paragraph about one of our long-dead and, I imagine, forgotten worthies.

    Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn 1881

  • But opposite some of these eulogistical passages of the Journal there were afterward added an expressive series of marks of interrogation.

    The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

  • But opposite some of these eulogistical passages of the Journal there were afterward added an expressive series of marks of interrogation.

    The Personal Life of David Livingstone William Garden Blaikie 1859

  • Instead of the attack I supposed it to be, from my foolish friend's account, the notice is outrageously eulogistical, a stupidly extravagant laudation from first to last -- and in _three other_ articles, as my sister finds by diligent fishing, they introduce my name with the same felicitous praise (except one instance, though, in a good article by Chorley I am certain); and

    The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

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