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Definition of Encomiast

Encomiast
Encomiast En*co"mi*ast, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to praise, fr. ? encomium: cf. F. encomiaste. See Encomium.] One who praises; a panegyrist. --Locke.

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- Scandinavian history. The anonymous author, often simply referred to as "The Encomiast", was probably a Flemish monk, as he identifies himself in the text as...
- and expands on the information provided by the Kontakion. The Byzantine encomiast states that in writing his text he made use of the oral tradition and...
- to persuade the leading nobles to give their fealty to Harold. Emma's encomiast attributes to her even more seriously dishonest methods. She makes Ælfgifu...
- famed Byzantine historian), who would later enter his service, and later encomiasts often wrote that Constantine had always been courageous, adventurous,...
- may even suggest a birth date nearer 1000. There is a p****age of the Encomiast (as the author of the Encomium Emmae is known) with a reference to the...
- writing "a work of bondless genius." In 1885, being neither disciple nor encomiast of Lord Byron, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) said that the narrative...
- a treatise attributed to Menander Rhetor of the late 3rd century. The encomiast should praise the emperor's origins, his physical beauty, his upbringing...
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- food of the Saints Death the touchstone of pretension The hypocritical Encomiast The divine Physicians How Abd Yazíd (Báyazíd) Bistámí predicted the birth...
- Stephens writes not so much as a historian of South Australia as its encomiast'). He edited the short-lived South Australian Colonist for George Fife...