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panegyrical

panegyrical adjective: lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.

Adjective

panegyrical (comparative more panegyrical, superlative most panegyrical)

  1. Lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.
    • Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […]...
    • The days of description (personal and panegyrical) are passing rapidly away.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 167

Forms of panegyrical

comparativemore panegyrical
superlativemost panegyrical

Origin of panegyrical

From panegyric + -al.

Words formed from panegyrical

Questions about panegyrical

What does panegyrical mean?
Panegyrical means lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.
What part of speech is panegyrical?
Panegyrical is an adjective.

Words near panegyrical in the dictionary

  1. panegoism
  2. panegoist
  3. panegoists
  4. panegyreis
  5. panegyric
  6. panegyrical
  7. panegyrically
  8. panegyricize
  9. panegyricized
  10. panegyricizes
  11. panegyricizing

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