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What is a panegyric?
(pan' ə jir' ik, -jī' rik)
A formal expression of praise, sometimes for the dead.
When he saw [his picture] ... the sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. Then had come Lord Henry Wotton with his strange panegyric on youth, his terrible warning of its brevity. Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless. He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
From Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.