panegyrist
(ˈpæniːdʒɪrɪst)
[f. next: see -ist. Cf. Gr. πανηγυριστής one who celebrates a public festival.]
One who writes or utters a panegyric; one who elaborately praises; an encomiast.
| 1605 Camden Rem. (1637) 3 Adde..these few lines out of a farre more ancient Panegyrist. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia ix. iii, The panegyrist of human life! 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 25 Panegyrists, Errant Knights! That whitewash one as grim'd as Nero, And make him shine abroad—an hero. 1876 Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiii. 156 The high-flown rhetoric of a panegyrist. |