panegyrist

American  

[pan-i-jir-ist, -jahy-rist, pan-i-jir-ist, -jahy-rist] / ˌpæn ɪˈdʒɪr ɪst, -ˈdʒaɪ rɪst, ˈpæn ɪˌdʒɪr ɪst, -ˌdʒaɪ rɪst /

noun

1. a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.

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Etymology

Origin of panegyrist

1595–1605; < Late Latin panēgyrista < Greek panēgyristḗs one who takes part in a public festival or assembly, equivalent to panēgyr ( izein ) to celebrate a public festival ( see panegyrize) + -istēs -ist

Example Sentences

So, recalling this incident, cried her eloquent panegyrist at her funeral service a quarter of a century later.

From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta

But Leti has it, who is so far from a panegyrist that it deserves mention.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

He was particularly hard on Horace Vernet, that panegyrist of the piou-piou, as he called him.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

This passage may be compared with two passages in Horace, showing that the same kind of thing was expected from a poetical panegyrist under Augustus.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

Our panegyrist profited afterwards by this circumstance to abuse the pharisees and doctors, who rejected both his baptism and John's.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'