eloge

English

Etymology

From French éloge, from Latin ēlogium.

Noun

eloge (plural eloges)

1. (obsolete) An expression of praise.
2. A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.
   • 2008, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, HarperPress 2009, p. 430:

     In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.

3. Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.