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† ˈelogy Obs.
Also 7–8 elogie.
[Anglicized form of prec.]
1. An explanatory inscription, esp. on a monument or a portrait. Cf. elogium 1.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. 13 Many personages..deserue better than dispersed report, or barren Elogies. 1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 209 The effigies of the several Dukes, with their Elogies. 1658J. Burbury Hist. Christina Q. Swedland 422 In several pastboords hung their elogies. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 47 His Statue or Picture, with an Elogy under it, shall be placed in the Galery.
2. A brief summary of a person's character; a characterization; usually in favourable sense, a eulogy, expression of praise.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. iv. Notes 70 But for Arthur you shall best know him in this elogie. This is that Arthur, etc. 1629Earle Microcosm. lxii. (Arb.) 87 No man..comes off more with the elogie of a kind Gentleman. 1638Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 12 One Stokes..did..set forth a pretty book, which was published, with many witty elogies before it. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Voc., Elogie, a report in praise or dispraise of a thing. 1704Earl of Cromarty Sp. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4037/5 An Elogie or Panegerick on Her Majesty. 1740Johnson Blake Wks. IV. 369 We must then admit, amidst our elogies and applauses.
3. A biographical notice (usually of a deceased person).
1644Milton Judgm. Bucer (1851) 291 Jacobus Verheiden..in his Elogies of famous Divines. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xii. 217 As Paulus Jovius hath delivered in his Elogie of learned men. 1652C. Stapylton Herodian 74 Of such before as writ his Acts or Elogie, Some Records doe unto this day remain.
4. A funeral oration.
1677Govt. Venice 197 His Funerals are kept in the Church of St. Mark; and his Elogy pronounced in presence of the Senat. 1689Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 296 She..had her obsequies celebrated..by a solemn procession, and elogy of all the witness of that renowned city. |