panegyrize

Of course he would have found it hard to panegyrize his favourite democracies when he came to the Hellenistic age.

It is the fashion among the poets of Martinia to panegyrize the tails of eminent monkeys, as it is with us to eulogize the beauty of women.

It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize.

I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full.

He makes mountains out of millstones, and would panegyrize the most commonplace of men if he happened to take a fancy to him.