different between praise vs elegize

English

Etymology

From Middle English praisen, preisen, borrowed from Old French proisier, preisier (“to value, prize”), from Late Latin preti? (“to value, prize”) from pretium (“price, worth, reward”). See prize. Displaced native Middle English lofen, loven (“to praise”) (from Old English lofian, compare Middle English and Old English lof (“praise”), see love, lofe, loff), Middle English herien (“to praise, glorify, celebrate”) (from Old English herian), Middle English rosen (“to praise, glorify”) (from Old Norse hrósa).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?z, IPA^(key): /p?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: prays, preys

Noun

praise (countable and uncountable, plural praises)

1. commendation; favourable representation in words

2. worship

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:praise

Antonyms

• blame
• criticize
• See Thesaurus:praise

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

praise (third-person singular simple present praises, present participle praising, simple past and past participle praised)

1. To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.

Antonyms

• blame

Derived terms

• overpraise
• underpraise
• unpraised

Translations

Further reading

• praise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• praise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Arispe, Parise, Pearis, Persia, aspire, paires, paries, spirea

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

praise f

1. genitive singular of prais

English

Etymology

elegy +? -ize

Verb

elegize (third-person singular simple present elegizes, present participle elegizing, simple past and past participle elegized)

1. (transitive) To compose an elegy for.
2. (intransitive) To compose an elegy.
3. (transitive) To praise, as if in an elegy.

Quotations

• 1821 Lord Byron, Imitation

  Yet none in lofty numbers can surpass / The bard who soars to elegize an ass.

• 2001 Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures: Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship

  Searching for an appropriate image with which to elegize Christ, the speaker relies upon his formal poetic instruction to succeed.