v. [f. EULOG-Y + -IZE.]
1. trans. To pronounce a eulogy upon; to speak or write in commendation of; to extol, praise.
1799. Huddesford, Bubble & Squeak, 41 (T.). Those Who eulogize their country’s foes.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 25, note.
| Rhymsters who praise ’em to the skies, | |
| And meanest actions eulogize. |
1865. Lecky, Ration., II. v. 200. He eulogised constitutional government as immeasurably superior to despotism.
¶ 2. Used to represent Gr. εὐλογεῖν in sense ‘to bless.’
1885. E. S. Ffoulkes, Prim. Consecr., ix. 419. What our Lord had effected by blessing and giving thanks … by eulogising them, as S. Cyril has it.
Hence Eulogizer, one who eulogizes; a eulogist.
1837. New Monthly Mag., XLIX. 341. The eulogizers of the wisdom of our ancestors.
1866. Alger, Solit. Nat. & Man, IV. 200. To stigmatize such a man [Gotama Buddha] … as an atheistic eulogizer of nothingness … is manifest injustice.
