Word Meanings - EULOGIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who eulogizes or praises; panegyrist; encomiast. Buckle.

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• BUCKLER
  A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler , a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard , a genus of plants with small bright
• PANEGYRIST
  One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.
• ENCOMIAST
  One who praises; a panegyrist. Locke.
• BUCKLE
  boucle, boss of a shield, ring, fr. L. buccula a little cheek or 1. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap
• ENCOMIASTIC
  A panegyric. B. Jonson.
• ENCOMIASTIC; ENCOMIASTICAL
  Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.
• BUCKLER-HEADED
  Having a head like a buckler.
• TURN-BUCKLE
  A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.
• RUSHBUCKLER
  A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. Robynson .
• SWASHBUCKLER
  A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.
• SWINGEBUCKLER
  A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. Shak.
• PARBUCKLE
  A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed
• UNBUCKLE
  To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe. "Unbuckle anon thy purse." Chaucer.