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panegyric, n. and a.|pænɪˈdʒɪrɪk|
Also 7 panegyrike, -gyrique, -girick, pani-, panne-, pana-, -gyrick, -girike, -gerick(e, 7–9 panegyrick.
[a. F. panégyrique (1512 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. panēgyric-us public eulogy, orig. adj., a. Gr. πανηγυρικός fit for a public assembly or festival, f. πανήγυρις panegyris.]
A. n.
1. A public speech or writing in praise of some person, thing, or achievement; a laudatory discourse, a formal or elaborate encomium or eulogy. Const. on, upon, formerly of.
1603Daniel (title) A Panegyrike Congratulatorie delivered to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. 1620in Fortesc. Papers (Camden) 132, I also composed a panagirick of the immortality of glorie. 1656Blount Glossogr., Panegyrick,..a licentious kinde of speaking or oration, in the praise and commendation of Kings, or other great persons, wherein some falsities are joyned with many flatteries. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. II. 45 The Mountebanks..decrying all others with a Panegyrick of their own Balsam. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iv. viii. (1715) 227 The Company..were some⁓times entertain'd with a Panegyrick upon the dead Person. a1704T. Brown Pleas. Ep. Wks. 1730 I. 109 Write a panegyric upon custard. 1791Boswell Johnson i, I profess to write, not his panegyrick..but his Life. 1836Johnsoniana i. 71 Had I meant to make a panegyric on Mr. Johnson's excellencies. 1879Froude Cæsar xxviii. 491 After Cato's death Cicero published a panegyric upon him.
2. Elaborate praise; eulogy; laudation.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Panigirike, praise. 1702Evelyn in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 255 Not doubting but the rest which follows will be still matter of panegyric. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. I. Pref. 5 In this season of panegyric, when scarce an author passes unpraised either by his friends or himself. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 6 He stands infinitely above the need of indiscriminate panegyric.
†3. = panegyrist. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 13 Father Stanney, a Iesuit Priest, called (of the Panigericks) the lanterne of England.
B. adj.
†1. = panegyrical 1. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Words, Panegyricke, Feasts, games, faires, marts, pompes, shewes, or any such solemnities, performed or exhibited, before the generall assembly of a whole nation.
2. = panegyrical 2.
a1631Donne Litanie xxiii. Poems (1654) 344 In Panegyrique Allelujaes. 1706Maule Hist. Picts in Misc. Scot. I. 17 The panegyrick author after a sort doth show. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. ii. i. 405 I'm not used to panegyrick strains. 1774Mason Elegies i. Poems 46 Cautious I strike the panegyric string.
Hence † paneˈgyric v. intr., to utter or write a panegyric; trans., to praise in an elaborate oration or eulogium.
1708De Foe Review Affairs France IV. Pref., I am not going about to panegyric upon my own Work. 1732Gentl. Instr. (ed. 10) 539 (D.), I had rather be..lampooned for a virtue than panegyrick'd for a vice. |