eloge
nounEtymology From French éloge, from Latin ēlogium. Doublet of elogy.
1
Obsolete An expression of praise.
2
A statement or disquisition in praise of someone who has died.
- In a later éloge, Georges Cuvier called it, with pardonable exaggeration, ‘in some respects the last words of a dying Plato’.2008, Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder, HarperPress, published 2009, page 430:
3
Specifically, the statement made by a new member of the French Academy about his predecessor.