encomiast
(ɛnˈkəʊmɪæst)
[ad. Gr. ἐγκωµιαστ-ής, f. ἐγκωµιάζειν to praise, laud, f. ἐγκώµιον encomium.]
One who composes or pronounces an encomium; a praiser, eulogizer, flatterer.
| 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. xlix, Of faire Eclecta..the..smooth Encomiast. a 1626 Bacon Q. Eliz. Mor. & Hist. Wks. (Bohn) 492 The only proper encomiast of this lady is time. 1772 Let. in Pettigrew Lettsom (1817) III. 394 Having undertaken the office of the biographer, not that of the encomiast. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 132 We hear the encomiasts of Homer affirming that he is the educator of Hellas. |