panegyrical

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A somewhat panegyrical biography�� and a scholarly travel book�� concerning Edward of Wales are current.

From Time Magazine Archive

The drama, being at length formed, naturally adhered to the first division of poetry, the satirical and panegyrical, which made tragedy and comedy.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

At the council of Nicaea in 325 he took a prominent part, occupying a seat at the emperor’s right hand, and being appointed to deliver the panegyrical oration in his honour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

We need not go any further to prove the entire falsehood of the account commonly given by the panegyrical rhetoricians of Athens.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried