different between panegyris vs panegyric

English

Alternative forms

• panegyry (archaic Egyptological)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (pan?guris), from ???- (pâs-, “all”) +? ?????? (águris), Aolic form of ????? ("assembly"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See panegyric.

Noun

panegyris (plural panegyreis)

1. In Ancient Greek religion, a religious festival on a fixed day in honor of a god, often including prayers, games, and panegyrics.
2. (obsolete) A festival; a public assembly.
   • 1735, Samuel Harris, Observations, Critical and Miscellaneous, on Several Remarkable Texts of the Old Testament

     Will there not open a glorious Scene , when God (to use St. Paul's Words) shall celebrate the grand Panegyris?

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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