Eulogy \Eu"lo*gy\, n.; pl. Eulogies. [Gr. ?, from ? well
speaking; e'y^ well + ? to speak. Cf. Eulogium, and see
Legend.]
A speech or writing in commendation of the character or
services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth.
[1913 Webster]
Eulogies turn into elegies. --Spenser.
Syn: Encomium; praise; panegyric; applause.
Usage: Eulogy, Eulogium, Encomium, Panegyric. The
idea of praise is common to all these words. The word
encomium is used of both persons and things which are
the result of human action, and denotes warm praise.
Eulogium and eulogy apply only to persons and are more
studied and of greater length. A panegyric was
originally a set speech in a full assembly of the
people, and hence denotes a more formal eulogy,
couched in terms of warm and continuous praise,
especially as to personal character. We may bestow
encomiums on any work of art, on production of genius,
without reference to the performer; we bestow
eulogies, or pronounce a eulogium, upon some
individual distinguished for his merit public
services; we pronounce a panegyric before an assembly
gathered for the occasion.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eulogy
n : a formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, panegyric,
paean, pean]
WordNet (r) 2.0
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "eulogy":
acclaim, acclamation, accolade, address, adulation,
after-dinner speech, allocution, apotheosis, applause,
bepraisement, burial service, chalk talk, citation, commendation,
compliment, congratulation, coronach, dead march, death knell,
death song, deathwatch, debate, declamation, deification, diatribe,
dirge, elegy, eloge, encomium, epicedium, eulogium, exaltation,
excessive praise, exequies, exhortation, extreme unction,
filibuster, flattery, forensic, forensic address, formal speech,
funeral march, funeral oration, funeral rites, funeral song,
glorification, glory, graveside oration, harangue, hero worship,
homage, hommage, honor, honorable mention, hortatory address,
idolatry, idolizing, inaugural, inaugural address, invective,
jeremiad, keen, knell, kudos, last duty, last honors, last offices,
last rites, laud, laudation, lionizing, magnification,
meed of praise, mention, monody, muffled drums, obsequies, oration,
overpraise, paean, panegyric, passing bell, pep talk, peroration,
philippic, pitch, plaudits, praise, prepared speech, prepared text,
public speech, reading, recital, recitation, requiem, requiem mass,
sales talk, salutation, salutatory, salutatory address, say,
screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk,
talkathon, threnode, threnody, tirade, tribute, valediction,
valedictory, valedictory address, viaticum, wake
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth
and power, or the consideration to be dead.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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