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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

panegyrista

, Gr.

πανηγυριστής

, one who attends a

πανήγυρις

: cf.

πανηγυρίζειν

to celebrate or attend a public festival, to make a set speech, esp. a panegyric, in a public assembly. See

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.

If these

panegyrists

are in earnest.

Burke.

Noun.

One who bestows praise; an eulogist; an encomiast, either by writing or speaking.