encomiastic
encomiastical

"Life - Encomiastic reflexions on the opposites"

Some of the encomiastic works from Ratan Shah's period include:

It has been described as a term "of encomiastic poetry", but there also is evidence that it implied a definite role of military leadership.

Studies in Greek Encomiastic Poetry of the Early Byzantine Period.

One poem was a light-hearted petition to the king for payment of a pension of 200 francs rewarded her encomiastic verse.

Dioscorus continued and developed this revolution by writing encomiastic poems (poems of praise) in an Homeric style.

Upon arrival in Madrid Franco's revolt in 1939, Manuel gave the military a encomiastic poetry, "The sword of the Caudillo."

These writings were strongly encomiastic to saudosist literature, namely the poetry of Teixeira de Pascoaes and Mário Beirão.

Tablets VI and VII repeat the same subject of Tablet I in a much more detailed and diluted way, with apparent literary and encomiastic intentions and overtones.

It contains perceptive descriptions of native mores in Lesotho and in South Africa and a thoughtful, by no means encomiastic, appraisal of the influence of Christianity on traditional marriage customs.

Early in the reviewing game I found that it was easier to carve up an inferior poem or poet than find terms for praising a superior one, and that the art of encomiastic criticism was indeed an art.

Scharnhorst observes that the Providence Evening Press, the Boston Transcript, the Christian Register, and the Monthly Religious Magazine waxed encomiastic with "simply charming", "excellent", and "spirited and inspiring".

For an encomiastic presentation, see Philippus Alegambe, Heroes, et victimae charitatis Societatis Jesu (Rome: Ex typographia Varesii, 1658), especially pp.

To noise Botto's book, Pessoa wrote a provocative and encomiastic article about Canções, published in the journal Comtemporânea, praising the author's courage and sincerity for shamelessly singing homosexual love as a true aesthete.

No, it must be a more quaint and collateral device, as - stay: to frame some encomiastic speech upon this our metropolis, or the wise magistrates thereof, in which politic number, 'tis odds but his father fill'd up a room?

Whether one reads the Greek encomiastic sources, or the Latin and oriental sources, the impression is consistent with Choniates' picture of an emperor who spent lavishly in all available ways, rarely economising in one sector in order to develop another.

It was his duty to celebrate his princely patrons in panegyrics and epics, to abuse their enemies in libels and invectives, to salute them with encomiastic odes on their birthdays, and to compose poems on their favorite themes.

Similarly calculated, and again perhaps no mere "encomiastic vignette" but drawn from life, is Ermold's picture of the little Charles at his father's hunt: By chance a little doe with the pack of hounds behind her flees Through the shady grove, and leaps through willow-woods.