Obs. Also 7–8 elogie. [Anglicized form of prec.]
1. An explanatory inscription, esp. on a monument or a portrait. Cf. ELOGIUM 1.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. Dd 1 b. Many worthy personages … deserue better then dispersed report, or barren Elogies.
1645. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 209. The effigies of the several Dukes, with their Elogies.
1658. J. Burbury, Hist. Christina Q. Swedland, 422. In severall pastboords hung their Elogies.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 47. His Statue or Picture, with an Elogy under it, shall be placed in the Galery.
2. A brief summary of a person’s character; a characterization; usually in favorable sense, a eulogy, expression of praise.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., iv. Notes 70. But for Arthur, you shall best know him in this elogie. This is that Arthur [etc.].
1629. Earle, Microcosm., lxii. (Arb.), 87. No man … comes off more with the elogie of a kind Gentleman.
1638. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 12. One Stokes … did … set forth a pretty book, which was published, with many witty elogies before it.
1681. trans. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., Voc., Elogie, A report in praise or dispraise of a thing.
1704. Earl Cromarty, Sp., in Lond. Gaz., No. 4037/5. An Elogie or Panegerick on Her Majesty.
1740. Johnson, Blake, Wks. IV. 369. We must then admit, amidst our elogies and applauses.
3. A biographical notice (usually of a deceased person).
1644. Milton, Judgm. Bucer (1851), 291. Jacobus Verheiden … in his Elogies of famous Divines.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. xii. 217. As Paulus Jovius hath delivered in his Elogie of learned men.
1652. C. Stapylton, Herodian, 74. Of such before as writ his Acts or Elogie, Some Records doe unto this day remain.
4. A funeral oration.
1677. Govt. Venice, 197. His Funerals are kept in the Church of St Mark; and his Elogy pronounced in presence of the Senat.
1689. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), III. 296. She … had her obsequies celebrated at Rome by a solemn procession, and elogy of all the witness of that renowned city.
