Definition of "panegyrist" [pan•e•gyr•ist]

• One who writes or delivers panegyrics; a eulogist. (noun)

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• "His calling C.assus his "panegyrist" is explained by Letter XIX, pp. 33-34.] [Footnote 102: C. C.rio, the elder, defended C.odius."
• "“Your language is wonderfully altered within this twelvemonth,” said Mr Monckton; “the worthlessness of human nature! the miseries of life! this from you! so lately the champion of human nature, and the panegyrist of human life!”"
• "Constantine, is he not an author who, in this work, bears throughout the character of a panegyrist, rather than that of a historian?"