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Encomiast   Listen
noun
Encomiast  n.  One who praises; a panegyrist.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Encomiast" Quotes from Famous Books



... honest Martyr's taste. Gomez suggests, as the reason, that his salary was clipped off in the general retrenchment, which he admits was a very hard case. (De Rebus Gestis, fol. 177.) Martyr, however, was never an extravagant encomiast of the cardinal, and one may imagine much more creditable reasons, than that assigned, for his disgust ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott

... What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true. Marcus was raised to divine honors, or canonized [Footnote: In reality, if by divus and divine honors we understand a saint or spiritualized being having a right of intercession with the Supreme Deity, and by his temple, ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

... rather unpleasant, in view of this generous—if overstrained— tribute, to find the object of it referring later to the works of his encomiast as "thin sown with profit ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb



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