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panegyrist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Panegyrist \Pan"e*gyr`ist\, n. [L. panegyrista, Gr. panhgyristh`s, one who attends a panh`gyris: cf. panhgyri`zein to celebrate or attend a public festival, to make a set speech, esp. a panegyric, in a public assembly. See Panegyric.] One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.
If these panegyrists are in earnest.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
n. A eulogist; one who delivers a panegyric or eulogy.
WordNet
n. an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics [syn: eulogist]
Usage examples of "panegyrist".
Long Parliament, which ejected the panegyrist of young Prince Charles from the vicarage of Dean Prior, and installed in his place the venerable John Syms, a gentleman with pronounced Cromwellian views.
He next celebrates the two funerals of his colleague and brother, one after the other, he himself acting as panegyrist in the case of both, when by ascribing to them his own deserts, he himself obtained the greatest share of them.
Each of them has its panegyrist outside to buttonhole the passer-by and extol the lewd delights within.
I never saw Theodora, so I do not know whether she was, as the panegyrists were bound to say, beautiful.
Eighteenth-century panegyrists elevated Peter to the status of a god: he was Titan, Neptune and Mars rolled into one.
I never saw Theodora, so I do not know whether she was, as the panegyrists were bound to say, beautiful.
Our English antiquarians were used to dwell with rapture on the words of his panegyrist, "Britannias illic oriendo nobiles fecisti.
Sitionius then proceeds, according to the duty of a panegyrist, to transfer the whole merit from Aetius to his minister Avitus.