Definition of "panegyrize" verb third-person singular simple present panegyrizes , present participle panegyrizing , simple past and past participle panegyrized
(transitive) To praise , especially in an eloquent speech or in writing . quotations examples
Quotations Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass , Mr . Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula , summing up the case with indignant brevity , censuring somebody , or panegyrizing somebody .
1856 June 14, “Head and Tail”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 142