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The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric; eulogy.

A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

ollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc. Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise. Pope.

One who praises; a panegyrist. Locke.

Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation. His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving.

To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage. David encouraged himself in the Lord. 1 Sam. xxx. 6.

To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. [R.] King James I. (1618).

To exert one's self; to work for a certain end. And such were praised who but endeavored well. Pope.

ed to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a patte…

who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm.

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. [Obs.] E. Phillips.