encomion

A variant of encomium, modelled on Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɛŋˈkəʊ.mi.ən/

encomion (plural encomions)

1. (obsolete) encomium; panegyric
   • 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v, signature N iij, verso:

     VVel this Encomion was not extemporall, it came too perfectly off.

   • 1646 (indicated as 1645), Humph[rey] Moseley, “The Stationer to the Reader”, in John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, signature a 3, verso:

     […] it’s the worth of theſe both Engliſh and Latin Poems, not the flouriſh of any prefixed encomions that can invite thee to buy them, though theſe are not without the higheſt Commendations and Applauſe of the learnedeſt Academicks, both domeſtick and forrein: […]

• “encomion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• monoenic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐγκώμιον (enkṓmion).

encomion n (plural encomioane)

1. eulogy