panegyrize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of panegyrize
1610–20; < Greek panēgyrízein to celebrate a public festival, equivalent to panḗgyr ( is ) ( see panegyric) + -izein -ize
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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.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Hanshew, Thomas W.
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.
From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.
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.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
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.
Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.
From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland
Obama’s campaign was panegyrized for its digital sophistication.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017
Mao Tse-tung, nearly 71, is panegyrized by his subjects as "the sun in our hearts," but he is setting fast.
From Time Magazine Archive
They strove with their full strength against those conditions panegyrized and poetized by the smirking optimists of their time, and thereby incurred the enmity of pedants and self-sufficient purists,—were denounced and denied, belittled and belied.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
From the father, our lawyer thus panegyrized received friendly geniality and broad understanding; from the mother, indomitable will, vigor and enthusiasm.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
MSS. vary very considerably in these stanzas of invocation: many lines are generally prefixed in which not only the poet, but those who play the chief parts in the poem are panegyrized.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
De Quincey, on the other hand, had read it, and both in his writings and conversation, was in the habit of alluding to, quoting, and panegyrizing it as more than equal to Wordsworth's other achievements.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
He began panegyrizing Uncle Tom; and this led to a discussion of the ground of its unprecedented success.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Far from panegyrizing his own time, he criticizes it without mercy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
I may have too much contented myself with panegyrizing his genius, and thinking the objections to it of no ultimate importance.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
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