a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Pertaining to or expressive of eulogy; of the nature of eulogy; commendatory, laudatory. Const. of.
1825. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1859), II. 71. Some adjunct of the eulogistic cast, such as moderate … or practical.
1827. Bentham, Rationale Evid., Wks. 1843, VII. 224. Scotch lawyers … do not plaster over the foulness of their system with eulogistic daubings.
1848. H. Miller, First Impr., vi. (1857), 95. The inscription is eulogistic of the poet’s character and genius.
Hence Eulogistical a. = prec.
In mod. Dicts.
Eulogistically adv., in a eulogistic manner.
1831. Croker, in Boswell’s Johnson, 20 July an. 1763, note. To talk thus eulogistically of ‘the very spirited exertions’ of a piratical bookseller.
1848. Fraser’s Mag., XXXVIII. 501. He writes … too eulogistically for a critic.
