Pl. eulogiums; also 8 eulogia. [a. med.L. eulogium, app. formed by a confusion between ēlogium (see ELOGIUM) and eulogia (see EULOGY), being used in both senses.]

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  A laudatory discourse; a formal expression of praise; = EULOGY 1.

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1706.  Phillips, Eulogium, an Elogy, a praising or speaking well of.

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1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 63, ¶ 2. He … falls into a general eulogium of friendship.

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1789.  Bentham, Princ. Legisl., xiii. § 6. Allowing nothing to approach the throne but mercenary eulogiums.

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1808.  Med. Jrnl., XIX. 464. Just eulogia on the Navy and Army practitioners.

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1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxv. These remarks put a termination to Mr. Crummles’s eulogium.

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1848.  H. Miller, First Impr., ii. (1857), 20. I realized … the justice of the eulogium of Thomson on the art of the architect.

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  b.  Eulogistic speaking: = EULOGY 1 b.

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1802.  Paris as it was, II. lxviii. 334. A master-piece of art, which is above all eulogium.

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1862.  Trollope, Orley F., vi. They are very nice…. How can he avoid eulogium?

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