Obs. The Gr. form of ENCOMIUM; occas. used in 16th and 17th c.
1598. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., IV. ii. 69. You have a simple servant here, that crownes your beauty with such encomions.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, XI. xlvi. Mellifluous encomions of divine love.
1646. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, I. 88. How deckt In her Encomions ffollie doth appeare.
