A general category of oratory.
The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
The collective noun for larks.
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
That placement of a planet in the zodiac in which it is deemed to exert its strongest influence.