Definition of "panegyrical"

Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.

a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, page 302

The days of description (personal and panegyrical) are passing rapidly away.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 167

Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"--a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.

1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham‎