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• [=a]-l[=o]zh', ELOGIUM, [=e]-l[=o]'ji-um, ELOGY, el'o-ji, n. a funeral oration: a panegyric.--n. EL'OGIST, one who delivers an éloge. [Fr. éloge--L. elogium, a short statement, an inscription on a tomb, perh. confused with eulogy.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson