单词 | panegyrist |
释义 | panegyristn. A person who writes or delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; a person who praises, esp. in an elaborate, fulsome, or exaggerated way. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > formal expression of praise > [noun] > one who composes or utters panegyric1602 panegyrist1605 encomiast1610 elogista1639 encomiaster1676 eulogist1808 panegyrizer1823 eulogizer1837 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 2 Adde..these few lines out of a farre more antient Panegyrist. 1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον ii. 9 Truth her selfe might be her Panegyrist and yet continue naked. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross i. iv. 7 The Panegyrist Eumenius. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iii. 36 The panegyrist of human life! 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 25 Panegyrists, Errant Knights! That whitewash one as grim'd as Nero, And make him shine abroad—an hero. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 156 The high-flown rhetoric of a panegyrist. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 736/1 His panegyrist Panormita did not think it an incredible lie to say that the King was cured of an illness by having a few pages of Quintus Curtius read to him. 1987 J. Epstein Once more around Block 51 Powerful ancient rulers kept panegyrists at court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1605 |
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