Word Meanings - PANEGYRIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PANEGYRIC)

• Encomium
• Panegyric
• laudation
• praise
• compliment
• commendation
• eulogy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PANEGYRIC)

• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to PANEGYRIC)

• EULOGY
  A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth. Eulogies turn into elegies. Spenser. Syn. -- Encomium; praise; panegyric; applause. -- Eulogy, Eulogium, Encomium, Panegyric. The idea of
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• COMMENDATION
  A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. Hark you, Margaret; No princely commendations to my king Shak. (more info) 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. Need we . . . epistles of
• DISCOMMENDER
  One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.
• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• ENCOMIUM
  Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation. His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Eulogy.
• LAUDATION
  The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• PANEGYRIC; PANEGYRICAL
  Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. "Panegyric strains." Pope. -- Pan`e*gyr"ic*al*ly, adv. Some of his odes are panegyrical. Dryden. (more info) panhgyrico`s, from pa^, pa^n all +
• BLAMEFUL
  1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
• COMPLIMENT
  An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend. Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow
• PRAISE
  fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• MISCENSURE
  To misjudge. Daniel. -- n.