panegyrize

especially British, pan·e·gy·rise

[pan-i-juh-rahyz]

verb (used with object)

panegyrized, panegyrizing 

1. to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.

verb (used without object)

panegyrized, panegyrizing 

1. to indulge in panegyric; bestow praises.

panegyrize

/ ˈpænɪdʒɪˌraɪz /

verb

1. to make a eulogy or eulogies (about)

Other Word Forms

• unpanegyrized adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of panegyrize¹

1610–20; < Greek panēgyrízein to celebrate a public festival, equivalent to panḗgyr ( is ) ( panegyric ) + -izein -ize

Example Sentences

Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.

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It is the fashion among the poets of Martinia to panegyrize the tails of eminent monkeys, as it is with us to eulogize the beauty of women.

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It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize.

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I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full.

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He makes mountains out of millstones, and would panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him.

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