Associations to the word «Encomium»

Wiktionary

ENCOMIUM, noun. Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
ENCOMIUM, noun. (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
ENCOMIUM, noun. (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
ENCOMIUM, noun. The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
ENCOMIUM, noun. (literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.

Dictionary definition

ENCOMIUM, noun. A formal expression of praise.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats