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eˈloge
[a. Fr. éloge, ad. L. ēlogium (see elogium). Now treated as Fr.: pronounced (elɔʒ).]
†1. An expression of praise or commendation; an encomium. Obs.
c1566T. Nuce tr. Seneca's Octavia i. iii, That woman wight shal have alwaye This eloge yet. 1693J. Beaumont On Burnet's Th. Earth i. 55 The Author here gives us an Eloge on Mountains. 1764Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 128 The eloge which the noblest of poets gives me. a1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. iv. 287 Pere Mersenne..has given us an..eloge of him. 1802Edin. Rev. I. 23 The latter member of this eloge would now be wholly unintelligible, if applied to a spirited coach-horse.
2. A funeral oration; a discourse in honour of a deceased person, e.g. that pronounced by a newly-elected member of the French Academy upon his predecessor.
c1725Atterbury Epist. Corr. I. (1783) 179, I return you, Sir, the two eloges, which I have perused with pleasure. I borrow that word from your language. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., The secretary of the royal academy of sciences in Paris composes the eloges of such members as die. 1861G. Wilson & Geikie E. Forbes xv. 553 Pronouncing the Eloge of his old master into whose place he now ascends! |