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Webster 1828 Edition
Eulogist
EU'LOGIST
,Noun.
Definition 2024
eulogist
eulogist
English
Noun
eulogist (plural eulogists)
- A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person.
- A person who praises another person or thing.
- 1850, Herman Melville, White Jacket, ch. 90:
- I consider, that so far as what is called military renown is concerned, the American Navy needs no eulogist but History.
- 1867, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, ch. 27:
- I am his eulogist; but I am not in love with him. If he were to ask me to be his wife to-morrow, I should be distressed, and should refuse him.
- 1850, Herman Melville, White Jacket, ch. 90:
Translations
a speaker who delivers a funeral oration for a deceased person
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a person who praises another person or thing
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