Definition of "encomiastic" [en•co•mi•as•tic]

• Of or relating to an encomiast. (adjective)
• Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. (adjective)
• A panegyric. (noun)

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• "John Dryden considered "the great as entitled to encomiastic homage," wrote a censorious Samuel Johnson."
• "Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7)."
• "After the first course, one coming to Herodes the rhetorician brought a palm and a wreathed crown, which one of his acquaintance, who had won the prize for an encomiastic exercise, sent him."