eulogise

English

Alternative forms

• eulogize (US)

Etymology

eulogy +‎ -ise

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.lə.dʒaɪz/

Verb

eulogise (third-person singular simple present eulogises, present participle eulogising, simple past and past participle eulogised)

1. (British spelling) To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 178:

     Suddenly the calm current of their ordinary existence is disturbed by a visit from the reigning monarch; all the little, mean, and malevolent passions—vices, we should rather say—engendered of vanity and vexation of spirit, rise at once to the surface of the troubled waters—troubled by the demon of ambition; and the poor princess is left in mute dismay, to wonder what has become of the humility, the independence, and the content which she had so rashly eulogised.

   • 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton: Frome”, in RAIL, number 967, page 56:

     Bradshaw eulogises again about "considerable manufactures of woollen cloth", plus the "excellent grammar school, founded by Edward VI".

Anagrams

• elegious, eulogies