Noun, : An encomium by the President greeted the returning hero.    From Dictionary.com. 

Those latter-day gushing encomia from HLS faculty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama fatigue] Reference

Where is the show that has received all of these encomia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunday in the Park with George] Reference

Why shouldn't she expect the same sort of open arms and warm encomia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chez Pazienza: Nadya Suleman, the Duggars, and the Glorification of Family Freakshows] Reference

The prospect of living with her inspires pages of encomia on solitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [F. Kafka, Everyman] Reference

Please stop cluttering the wires with photos or encomia devoted to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Legends Gather #554] Reference

Amid the flattery and encomia heaped upon the reception of my unmeriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854] Reference

For the list of encomia written on each portrait, see Cheles, appendix A, 93 – 95. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Here he isn't clever in the art of love unless encomia to Erôs involve telling the truth about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference

For the written encomia that accompany the portraits, visit the Gallery of the Illustrious Men. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

American politicians joined ambassadors and other officials of the Israeli right in a parade of encomia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chosen Peoples] Reference

Additionally, the encomia inscribed in the Urbino portraits provided exemplary ingredients for epideictic oration. 48 19.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

For praise applies to virtue, because it makes men apt to do what is noble; but encomia to definite works of body or mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethics] Reference

Light was seen by too many people as Harrison revalidating SF after being away for a while; hence the encomia from within the genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Best Science Fiction Books… Ever « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference

Buchanan's quatercentenary was celebrated at different centres in Scotland in 1906, and was the occasion of several encomia and studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

I understand Rabbi Sacks is too busy to answer every letter he receives, but I'm nonetheless hopeful he'll reconsider his unadulterated encomia.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: Religion in the United States and England, as Influential English Rabbi Sacks Claims to See It] Reference

Given her wealth, however, these encomia could have been the result of financial reward for the author rather than an accurate portrayal of the recipient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benvenida Abravanel.] Reference

Given the gushing encomia Brown is humbly receiving on the BBC, which I'm sure these same thought police are encouraging nay demanding this is rather droll of them isn't it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour Complain to the BBC About ... Me] Reference

This was followed by page upon page of breathless encomia to our hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pink Slip] Reference

King had a different message, one seldom recorded in birthday encomia.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

A central figure in the confederation known as the Delian League. encomia.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)] Reference

Martin King had a different message, one seldom recorded in birthday encomia.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Loper's Website] Reference

Fuggerorum encomia» SS chariftae Sacramentum iudibrio habitui Magiftri ecclefiae SS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notitia historico-literaria de codicibvs manvscriptis in Bibliotheca liberi ac imperialis ...] Reference

Upon the same principle we must account for the unmerited encomia lavished upon these fragile blossoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

These banks all claim to be so client-focused, but where are the clients 'encomia to the megabank model?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Felix Salmon - All posts] Reference

She had scarcely been dead for thirty minutes when eulogies and encomia began to flood the mainstream media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liblogs News Feed] Reference

He has lately toned down the criticism of American monopolistic capitalism and replaced it with more favorable encomia.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMPONTAN] Reference

He also wrote hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, odes for processions, songs of maidens, mimic dancing songs, drinking songs, dirges and encomia, or panegyrics on princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference

He amplified his encomia in Britain's Economic Renaissance: Margaret Thatcher's reforms, 1979-1984, published in 1986 while the sun still shone on Thatcher's Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Well, I can’t say whether these encomia are well deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stromata Blog:] Reference

And thanks for your encomia regarding the review….    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Fascism: A Discussion - Warrior’s blog - RedState] Reference

AccipieSy populique encomia fera futuri.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the English Poets] Reference

Warton’s own encomia will make all the King, the.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s] Reference

Quod fiqua fcripta fint in his encomia,, iQuae concelebrent virtutem, & e contrtfio i, Reprehendaut vitia, difce fedolo, notatt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum] Reference