Crossword-Solution: ENCOMIA 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Upon the same principle we must account for the unmerited encomia lavished upon these fragile blossoms.

And when the boy has learned his letters and is beginning to understand what is written, as before he understood only what was spoken, they put into his hands the works of great poets, which he reads sitting on a bench at school; in these are contained many admonitions, and many tales, and praises, and encomia of ancient famous men, which he is required to learn by heart, in order that he may imitate or emulate them and desire to become like them.

Here then shall I conclude? No! The characters of the deceased, like the encomia on tombstones, as they are described with religious tenderness, so are they read, with allowing sympathy indeed, but yet with rational deduction.

For praise applies to virtue, because it makes men apt to do what is noble; but encomia to definite works of body or mind.[41] However, it is perhaps more suitable to a regular treatise on encomia to pursue this topic with exactness: it is enough for our purpose that from what has been said it is evident that Happiness belongs to the class of things precious and final.

Those that were to honour the persons of great Princes or to solemnise the pompe of any installment were called _Encomia_, we may call them carols of honour.