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noun A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died.
noun High praise or commendation.

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High commendation of a person or thing, especially when expressed in a formal manner or to an undue degree; specifically, a speech or writing delivered or composed for the express purpose of lauding its subject. Many brave young minds have oftentimes, through hearing the praises and famous eulogies of worthy men, been stirred up to affect the like commendations. Spenser, State of Ireland. Yet are there many worthy personages that deserve better than dispersed report or barren eulogies. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 132.
Same as eulogia. At Angers one Lent he [St. Malan] gave what is called the “eulogie” (sacred bread) to four bishops. N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 14.
Synonyms Encomium, Eulogy, Eulogium, Panegyric. These words are best understood through their history. (See the derivations.) Eulogy is stronger than encomium, but still is the most general word. An encomium is an expression of warm praise, of some fullness and completeness, like the ancient laudatory ode: encomium is not a distinctive name for a set speech; the others may be: as, Everett's Eulogy upon the Pilgrim Fathers; the Panegyric of Isocrates. Eulogium is only a more formal word for eulogy. The last three may be used abstractly, but not encomium; we may say, it was mere eulogy or panegyric, but not mere encomium. Eulogy, a eulogy, and an encomium may be tempered with criticism; panegyric and a panegyric are only praise; hence, panegyric is often used for exaggerated or undiscriminating praise. Plutarch assures us that our author [Cicero] … made a speech in public full of the highest encomiums on Crassus. Melmoth, tr. of Cicero, i. 5, note 3. Men with tears coursing down their cheeks in listening to his [Choate's] sonorous periods in his eulogy upon Webster yet slily made a memorandum that they would count the words in some of those periods when they should be printed. A. Phelps, Eng. Style, p. 99. Collectors of coins, dresses, and butterflies have astonished the world with eulogiums which would raise their particular studies into the first ranks of philosophy. I. D' Israeli, Lit. Char., p. 375. I think I am not inclined by nature or policy to make a panegyrick upon anything which is a just and natural object of censure. Burke, Rev. in France.

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He who honoured me with this eulogy was a scholar, "and a ripe and a good one," and of all my tutors was the only one whom I loved or reverenced. — Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
I can leave here at half past eleven o'clock and be in season for the eulogy, and find a place to hear into the bargain. — The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning
His sermon after the death of George I. may have embodied the feeling prevalent at that time; but, in view of the more critical light thrown upon the character and reigns of the Georges by historians and satirists of our day, this eulogy is a curiosity, with its almost childish enthusiasm and simple-hearted loyalty. — The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886
The rest of the eulogy is a free paraphrase of Rom. — The Latin ; Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
The subject of the eulogy is the chief of those who have come to be known as the International Novelists, and he was praised because he had invented and made possible a fifth plot. — Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

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Middle English euloge, from Medieval Latin eulogium, from Greek eulogiā, praise : eu-, eu- + -logos, speech; see -logy.

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First in Middle Latin form eulogium (later Old French euloge); later eulogy = French eulogie, from Middle Latin eulogia (a blessing, salutation, present, etc.), from Greek εὐλογία, good or fine language, praise, eulogy, panegyric, in N. T. blessing (see eulogia), from εὐ, well, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.

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