Originally an encomium was a greek chorale song honoring the hero of the olympic games and sang at the victory celebration at the end of the games. From LearnThat.org.
Noun, : An encomium by the President greeted the returning hero. From Dictionary.com.
Such an encomium, which is thrown away on the dead. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference
Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please. From Wordnik.com. [The Symposium] Reference
We annex a few stanzas, in illustration of our encomium. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
This is high encomium, but the audience paid him higher still. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
And this, as I well remember, was his encomium in Latin to the. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
New York needs no encomium from me, none in fact from her sons. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
I think Prof. Mahan's very marked encomium upon the campaign of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
In the lecture on "Gallantry," Lola had a warm encomium for King. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
I can not pass this Godly man by without an encomium to his memory. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
But during the Middle Ages this is constantly the highest encomium. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
The boys were, of course, somewhat confused at the encomium, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
The following encomium on Bolshevism appeared in "The Call," New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
On the 8th, our hero received a most flattering encomium, indeed, from. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
When I congratulated my friend on this encomium, from so competent and eminent. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Mr. President, I shall enter upon no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
= The subject of this remarkable encomium was Edward de Vere (1550-1604), seventeenth. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Two letters this morning were full of enthusiastic encomium on the use of the machine. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
To paraphrase the encomium of Shakspere to Cleopatra would fit the greatness of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
For who ever bestowed such encomium upon his country as Euripides did in the following lines?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
With no disposition to bestow an undue encomium on any one, we cannot but say, happy was Queen. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
No encomium could be more deserved, none more seasonably offered or more appropriately conveyed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850] Reference
We fear that so general an encomium could not truthfully be bestowed on all the volunteer nurses. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Thus Wálí, begins his poem with a brief encomium on the four first Khalífs, and then bestows an eulogy on. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Honest Von Raumer's dull encomium fell almost still-born from the press, while the far more superficial pages of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Her admiration of her youthful lover is now approved by his illustrious birth and my encomium of his high descent. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
The slave, hearing this encomium, bowed down her head; for the guards who held her prevented her falling prostrate. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
He entered upon a high encomium of Huss; and declared he was ready to follow him in the glorious track of martyrdom. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Does he really merit such an encomium, who sacrilegiously usurps and wears the crown, that alone can flourish on the head of. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
"You be's a proper sort, you be, hey, Meaister?" thereby calling upon the vicar, as it were, to testify to the truth of the encomium. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
"He uses his folly as a stalking-horse, under cover of which he shoots his wit;" and fully deserves the encomium bestowed upon him by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
This encomium upon Elizabeth's hair recalls the description of another courtier, that it was like the last rays of the declining sun. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Eric's encomium was all the more appreciative from the fact of his having been familiar with the ship through part of her last voyage. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Blair was defined by his response to the death of Diana and the trembling lip that accompanied his encomium to the "people's princess.". From Wordnik.com. [A Smashing First Act] Reference
His encomium on this distinguished man appealed to me as I am sure it does to others; he spoke of him as the "Confucius of his country.". From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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