different between panegyric vs dirge

English

Alternative forms

• panegyrick (obsolete)
• panegyry (obsolete)

Etymology

From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (pan?gurikós), from ???- (pan-) "all" + agyris "place of assembly", Aeolic form of ????? (agorá)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn??d?????k/, /?pæn??d??a???k/

Noun

panegyric (countable and uncountable, plural panegyrics)

1. A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.

   Synonym: eulogy

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 197):

     He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.
2. Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.

Derived terms

• panegyrical
• panegyrically

Translations

Adjective

panegyric (comparative more panegyric, superlative most panegyric)

1. panegyrical

English

Etymology

From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: dûj, IPA^(key): /d??d?/
• (US) enPR: dûrj, IPA^(key): /d?d?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?

Noun

dirge (plural dirges)

1. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
2. (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

Synonyms

• lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

Related terms

• dirgeful

Translations

Verb

dirge (third-person singular simple present dirges, present participle dirging, simple past and past participle dirged)

1. To sing dirges

Anagrams

• Ridge, derig, gride, redig, ridge

Middle English

Noun

dirge

1. Alternative form of dirige