panegyrize

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When all voices were united to panegyrize her beauty -- when I knew, that the powers of her wit -- the charms of her conversation -- the accurate judgment, united to the sparkling imagination, were even more remarkable characteristics of her mind, than loveliness of her person, I could not but feel my ambition, as well as my tenderness, excited; I dwelt with

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  1. transitive verb To eulogize.
  2. intransitive verb To compose, deliver, or indulge in panegyrics.

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  • Martinia to panegyrize the tails of eminent monkeys, as it is with us to eulogize the beauty of women. —  Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.
  • When all voices were united to panegyrize her beauty -- when I knew, that the powers of her wit -- the charms of her conversation -- the accurate judgment, united to the sparkling imagination, were even more remarkable characteristics of her mind, than loveliness of her person, I could not but feel my ambition, as well as my tenderness, excited; I dwelt with a double intensity on my choice, and with a tenfold bitterness on the obstacles which forbade me to indulge it. —  Pelham — Volume 06
  • When all voices were united to panegyrize her beauty -- when I knew, that the powers of her wit -- the charms of her conversation -- the accurate judgment, united to the sparkling imagination, were even more remarkable characteristics of her mind, than loveliness of her person, I could not but feel my ambition, as well as my tenderness, excited; I dwelt with —  Pelham — Complete
  • It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize. —  Ancient States and Empires
  • I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full. —  St. Cuthbert's
 

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  1. from Greek πανηγυρίζειν, atten a public assembly, deliver a panegyric: see panegyrist.
 

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/ˈpænədʒɪraɪz/
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