panegyrical

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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 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:
      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.

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