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eu·lo·gize

 (yo͞o′lə-jīz′)
tr.v. eu·lo·gized, eu·lo·giz·ing, eu·lo·giz·es
To praise highly in speech or writing, especially in a formal eulogy.
eu′lo·gist (-jĭst) n.
eu′lo·gis′tic (-jĭs′tĭk) adj.
eu′lo·giz′er n.
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eu•lo•gist

(ˈyu lə dʒɪst)

n.
a person who eulogizes.
[1800–10]
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Noun1.eulogist - an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics
panegyrist
orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker - a person who delivers a speech or oration
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This I will proceed to describe; but as you may think the description a little too coarse, I ask you to suppose, Socrates, that the words which follow are not mine.-- Let me put them into the mouths of the eulogists of injustice: They will tell you that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound--will have his eyes burnt out; and, at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled: Then he will understand that he ought to seem only, and not to be, just; the words of Aeschylus may be more truly spoken of the unjust than of the just.
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