Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
elogy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.
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- noun a
eulogy
Etymologies
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Examples
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And Niccolo Machiavelli has a cenotaph in Florence at the Church of Santa Croce, the elegaic reads: "Tanto nomini nullum par elogium"/"For so great a name, no praise is adequate/No praise is equal to such a name"...
How do we map our lives? Fresca 2009
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The tomb features an allegorical figure of Diplomacy above the legend "Tanto nomini nullum par elogium": No elegy is equal to such a name.
Machiavelli's Daring 'Gift' William Amelia 2008
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Such was the honourable elogium, on this young chieftain, pronounced by an accurate observer, whose praise was never lightly bestowed.
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* Videte ne et hoc ad irreligiositatis elogium concurrat, adimere libertatem religionis, et interdicere optionem divinitatis, ut non liceat mihi colere quem velim, sed cogar colere quem nolim.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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St. Francis Xavier makes a very pretty elogium of him in a letter written to King John III of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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A monument was erected in his memory in the church of the Santi Apostoli, at Rome, representing him as an artist in working garb, with an inscription: Tanto nomini nullum par elogium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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SAGUENS, De Vita, moribus et scriptis R.P. E. Maignani et elogium
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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"Constitutio sive elogium Anysii" (Anysius was a general who had been successful against the barbarians); "Catastasis", describing the ruin of Pentapolis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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This elogium of St. Francis sums up his career for the forty-five years he worked in Malabar (1504-49).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Further elogium on young Col. Credulity of a Frenchman in foreign countries.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
mollusque commented on the word elogium
In 1128 he held a council in Troves for the express purpose of defining the role of those new soldier-monks, and a few years later he wrote an elogium on them and drew up their rule, seventy-two articles.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 82
September 29, 2008