a. [f. prec. + -AL.] = ENCOMIASTIC a.
1592. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 59. This deserveth a more famous encomiasticall oration.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 112. A white marble table, and thereon an Epitaph … with encomiastical Verses.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 25, note.
| Plaudits encomiastical, | |
| That stride on stilts, bombastical. |
