In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
This prose anthology includes a nicely annotated Defence with an outline of its encomiastic structure and marginalia to help keep the outline in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Defence of Poesie] Reference
After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference
Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
His encomiastic odes are an apotheosis of the reign of Catherine II. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
They have been encomiastic even in regard to her voice and her manner of singing. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference
At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
Of the verses on Oliver's death, in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic, there has been no appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
It may be remarked, that in this elegy, and in most of his encomiastic poems, he has forgotten or neglected to name his heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
Satire turns the escape into a miracle, in such an encomiastic strain of compliment as poetry too often seeks to pay to royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
German school in England, and the cleverest Englishman who ever talked or wrote encomiastic nonsense about Germany and the Germans. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms. From Wordnik.com. [Bacon is Shake-Speare] Reference
His works were published in 1651, and to them were prefixed fifty copies of encomiastic verses from the wits and poets of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
If the Dutch Government, stimulated to gratitude for the encomiastic character of the present book, were to offer me my choice of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
Wordsworth's "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality," Tennyson's elegiac and encomiastic "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington," Lowell's. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
On my word, Eliezer did his business in an orderly and sensible manner; but what there is to call forth this hyper-encomiastic -- 'who only' -- I cannot see. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
Hariri, 'a work consisting of fifty oratorical, poetical, moral, encomiastic and satirical discourses, supposed to have been spoken or read in public assemblies. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature] Reference
My noble friend would give more than sixty years of copyright to Dryden's worst works; to the encomiastic verses on Oliver Cromwell, to the Wild Gallant, to the Rival. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
I mean not to accuse him of flattery; he probably thought all that he writ, and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastic. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
Pope's ambition of this new art produced some encomiastic verses to Jervas, which certainly show his power as a poet; but I have been told that they betray his ignorance of painting. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
His choice of encomiastic topics is very judicious; for he considers Cromwell in his exaltation, without inquiring how he attained it; there is consequently no mention of the rebel or the regicide. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
There is no effort to conceal any facts which may be supposed to weaken the general impression, or to introduce explanatory or encomiastic statements which may be thought to strengthen and enhance it. From Wordnik.com. [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I] Reference
This is the least I can say to refute your panegyric, which I shall burn presently; for I will not have such an encomiastic letter found in my possession, lest I should seem to have been pleased with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
The word in this sense has been extended, especially in its adjectival form, legendary, to things, allowing us to speak of a legendary wine, which means ` a wine about which (encomiastic) legends might be written. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3] Reference
The last contains notices of the most distinguished individuals of the court of Henry IV., which, although too indiscriminately encomiastic, are valuable subsidiaries to an accurate acquaintance with the prominent actors of the period. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1] Reference
In the meantime he had been active as a poet, and, trusting in the reform promised by the grand duke, Leopold Il. he addressed to him an encomiastic ode quite different from the satirical verses with which he had assailed him previously. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
To those verses it would not have been just to deny regard, for they contain some of the most elegant encomiastic strains; and among the innumerable poems of the same kind it will be hard to find one with which they need to fear a comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference
Carlo Dati presented him with an encomiastic inscription, in the tumid lapidary style; and Francini wrote him an ode, of which the first stanza is only empty noise; the rest are perhaps too diffuse on common topics: but the last is natural and beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
Henry Cabot Lodge joined the encomiastic chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic] Reference
Not with encomiastic ode. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
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