panegyrical

English

Etymology

From panegyric +‎ -al.

Adjective

panegyrical (comparative more panegyrical, superlative most panegyrical)

1. Lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.
   • a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 302:

     Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 167:

     The days of description (personal and panegyrical) are passing rapidly away.

   • 1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham‎^[1]:

     Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"--a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.

Translations

lavish with praise

• Bulgarian: хвалебствян (hvalebstvjan)
• Danish: panegyrisk
• Finnish: ylistävä (fi)
• Galician: panexírico (gl)
• German: panegyrisch (de)
• Norwegian: panegyrisk (no)
• Portuguese: panegírico (pt)
• Spanish: panegírico (es)
• Swedish: panegyrisk (sv)