The corpus record

ἐγκωμι-άζω

egkomiazo

praise, laud, extol

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Where it lives

Symposium 16 · 9.17/10k
Minos 2 · 7.01/10k
Cleitophon 1 · 6.46/10k
Menexenus 3 · 6.24/10k
Proverbia 5 · 4.5/10k
Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
Euthyphro 1 · 1.93/10k
Epistles 3 · 1.77/10k
Gorgias 4 · 1.52/10k
Laches 1 · 1.3/10k
Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐγκωμι-άζω · enkōmi-azō — LSJ

praise, laud, extol, to be praised, to be said in panegyric

praise, laud, extol, c. dupl. acc., ταῦτα τὴν δικαιοσύνην Id. R. 363d; τινὰ ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ Id. Euthphr. 9b; κατὰ τοῦτο Id. La. 191b; περὶ τὴν μάχην Id. Tht. 142b; τὴν τέχνην τινός Id. Grg. 448e: abs., Phld. Herc. 1457.8:—Pass., to be praised, Hdt. 5.5, Pl. Smp. 181a; to be said in panegyric, Phld. Herc. 1457 Fr. 14, etc.

In the wild

ἐγκωμιάζομεν · enkōmiazomen Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
ἐνεκωμίαζε · enekōmiaze Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
ἐγκωμιάζων · enkōmiazōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἐγκωμιάζειν · enkōmiazein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8594)
ἐγκωμιάσαι · enkōmiasai Epictetus, Discourses 1.6 (DIORISIS sentence 283)
ἐγκωμιασθεῖσα · enkōmiastheisa Herodotus, Histories 5.5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5393)

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Where it came from

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