encomiasticとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɛnkoʊmiˈæstɪk/

• 韻: -æstɪk

形容詞

encomiastic (comparative more encomiastic, superlative most encomiastic)

1. Of or relating to an encomiast.
2. Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.

   an encomiastic address or discourse

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 39, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     [H]is Excellency began drinking wine forthwith and gazing round upon the company, now with the most wonderful frowns, and anon with the blandest smiles, and hiccupped remarks encomiastic of the drink which he was imbibing.

   • 2001, Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     As Philodemus indicated in antiquity, encomia of Busiris [by Isocrates] belong to this category of "paradoxical" or "adoxographic" treatises, which flourished in nearly all periods of ancient Greek literature. These were speeches written in the encomiastic style on subjects that were immediately recognizable to ancient audiences as vile, trivial, ridiculous, or otherwise unsuited to praise.

派生語

• encomiastically

名詞

encomiastic (複数形 encomiastics)

1. A panegyric.
   • 1632 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 51546498:

     I thank you , Master Compass, for your short Encomiastic

アナグラム

• cosmetician