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Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. "Panegyric strains." Pope. -- Pan`e*gyr"ic*al*ly, adv. Some of his odes are panegyrical. Dryden.

A festival; a public assembly. [Obs.] S. Harris.

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.

A panegyric. [Obs.] Milton.

A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.

The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written also panellation.] Wood.

Without panes. To patch his paneless window. Shenstone.

A forming in panels; panelwork. [Written also panelling.]

Wainscoting.

Eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise. [R.] Her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism. National Rev.

Enough to fill a pan.

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Full of pangs. Richardson.

Without a pang; painless. Byron.

Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.

The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.