panegyrize

present singular third person panegyrizes · participle present panegyrizing · participle past panegyrized · past panegyrized

1. transitiveTo praise, especially in an eloquent speech or in writing.

   Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.

   1856 June 14, “Head and Tail”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 142

   Synonyms: eulogize, extol, laud, aggrandize, applaud, enthrone, appraise, belaud