encomiast

American  

[en-koh-mee-ast, -uhst] / ɛnˈkoʊ miˌæst, -əst /

noun

1. a person who utters or writes an encomium; eulogist.

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encomiast British  

/ ɛnˈkəʊmɪˌæst /

noun

1. a person who speaks or writes an encomium

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Other Word Forms

• encomiastic
  adjective
• encomiastically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of encomiast

1600–10; < Greek enkōmiast(ḗs), equivalent to enkōmi(on) encomi(um) + -ast ( def. )

Example Sentences

What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true.

From The Caesars by De Quincey, Thomas

It is one of those few subjects on which an encomiast may expatiate without deviating from the truth.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Johnson, Samuel

Abbād al-Iskandarī, encomiast of the vizier al-Afḍal, executed by Ḥāfiẓ; Ibn Qalāqis al-Iskandarī, encomiast of the Ayyūbites, d.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

Friendship, that theme of the encomiast, is neither more nor less, you will find, than the beginning of sponging.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

It is 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 or delight."

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles