What's the difference between panegyric and pean?

Panegyric


Definition:

  • (a.) An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.
  • (a.) Alt. of Panegyrical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the court poets still compose panegyrics beyond the walls of his palace, his power is fading.
  • (2) Campaigner Jessica Panegyres said the 2050 reef plan paid “lip service to reef protection” and did little to deal with the issue of climate change.
  • (3) "The BBC exists above all on trust and the relationship between the wider public and the BBC itself," according to one of Chris Patten's panegyrics last week.
  • (4) So, The Doctor's Dilemma was, in a sense, a launch pad for Danny Boyle's panegyric to the NHS.
  • (5) Catherine Rose Olney, Buckinghamshire • The debate on the Scottish referendum has been littered with the panegyrics to the union from the Westminster-based politicians.

Pean


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
  • (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leading 59,999 of his disciples to the island of Pean in the Aegean Sea, he grafted a new race from the germs of black people.
  • (2) Clinical indications, operative findings, technical details and pathological studies in 228 Billroth-I-Pean gastrict resections for gastric ulcer, are represented in detail.
  • (3) The thoracic aorta was clamped by a Pean's clamp in the 1st group (11 animals).
  • (4) The paper reports the results of a follow-up of 25 patients who underwent gastric resection using Roux's technique, 15 patients undergoing reconstructive surgery according to Pean-Billroth and 15 who underwent Billroth II operations.
  • (5) The lace was protracted around an intestine, both ends were threaded through 7-10 cm long rubber tube and fixed by Pean's forceps.

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