| The functions were not rituals to merely shower encomiums on the birthday boy. |
| Among the various guidelines for the speakers, one rule advises students to avoid encomiums at the beginning of the speech. |
| Her original choreographies based on Indian mythology and contemporary issues earned her encomiums from around the world. |
| Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns. |
| Her poetry is replete with such images, as time and again she writes encomia or praise-poems to particular mothers as well as the state of motherhood as an abstract ideal. |
| Among the new poems in his new book is one so good that the publisher has put it on the back of the hardcover edition, instead of blurbs and encomia. |
