Eulogy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eulogy
       n : a formal expression of praise [syn: {encomium}, {panegyric},
            {paean}, {pean}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  EULOGY, n.  Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth
  and power, or the consideration to be dead.