† enˈcomion Obs.
The Gr. form of encomium; occas. used in 16th and 17th c.
| 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. ii. 69 You have a simple servant here, that crownes your beauty with such encomions. a 1640 Jackson Creed xi. xlvi, Mellifluous encomions of divine love. 1646 G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 88 How deckt In her Encomions ffollie doth appeare. |