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panegyrize, v.|ˈpæniːdʒɪˌraɪz| [ad. Gr. πανηγυρίζ-ειν to celebrate πανήγυρις or a public festival; to deliver a panegyric: see -ize.] 1. trans. To pronounce or write a panegyric or elaborate eulogy upon; to speak or write in praise of: to eulogize.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. vi. 250 Among so many Saints, as he Panegyrizeth in these Orations. 1791F. Burney Diary 2 June, The friends of Government..panegyrised him while they wanted his assistance. 1833–6J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1876) I. ii. ii. 251 Meanly panegyrizing the government of an usurper. 2. intr. To compose or utter panegyrics.
a1827Mitford cited in Webster (1828). Hence ˈpanegyˌrized, ˈpanegyˌrizing ppl. adjs.; also ˈpanegyˌrizer.
1823Valperga II. 239 He was an earnest panegyrizer of republics and democracies. 1852Davies & Vaughan Plato's Republic x. (1868) 341 More anxious to be the panegyrized than the panegyrist. 1855Doran Hanover Queens I. xi. 436 In his panegyrising epitaph on the monarch. |