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panegyrize

[ pan-i-juh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

panegyrized, panegyrizing.
  1. to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.


verb (used without object)

panegyrized, panegyrizing.
  1. to indulge in panegyric; bestow praises.

panegyrize

/ ˈæɪɪˌɪ /

verb

  1. to make a eulogy or eulogies (about)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ·貹·· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of panegyrize1

1610–20; < Greek 貹ŧí𾱲 to celebrate a public festival, equivalent to 貹ḗg ( is ) ( panegyric ) + -izein -ize
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Example Sentences

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Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.

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It is the fashion among the poets of Martinia to panegyrize the tails of eminent monkeys, as it is with us to eulogize the beauty of women.

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It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize.

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I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full.

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He makes mountains out of millstones, and would panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him.

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