PANEGYRIC

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Oratory, an eulogy or harangue, written or spoken, in praise of an individual or body of men. Among the ancients, orations were recited in praise of the departed on various occasions, before solemn a embhes: hence the name. Among the later Romans, the baser practice prevailed of reciting panegyrical orations on distinguished living persons in their presence. Among the moderns, panegyrical oratory has been chiefly confined to funeral discourses from the pulpit. In France, however, the eloges or orations, pronounced in some literary and scientific societies on the decease of a member, bear something of the character of cla ical panegyrics. [s. 890]