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paean

(sometimes US), pean
a hymn sung in ancient Greece in invocation of or thanksgiving to a deity
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Paean

physician to the gods. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 29]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The early critical history of Hamlet is often a paean to Shakespeare as a writer who invests his characters with a life-like self.
Lest you think this is just a paean to the wonders of Blackhawk, you should know that the company is far from perfect.
The film's use of popular music also emphasizes Chino's arrested adolescence: he and Toby sidewalk surf through an obstacle course of beer cans to that paean of perpetual youth to "Fun Fun Fun" by The Beach Boys, who, despite the passage of time, never became The Beach Men.
Even the slightly skewed "Galaxy Song", a "beam me up, Scotty" paean to ivory towers everywhere courtesy of Eric Idle and Kevin Nealon, is a giggle-filled romp.
Largely a paean to IBM, which at the time was the most powerful company on earth, this highly readable book was unimaginably successful, getting quoted, imitated, and praised everywhere by everybody as soon as it appeared.
The Independent writer Paul Vallely described it as `a paean to the God responsible for a world of beauty, with a sting-in-the-tale (sic) admonition for those who see the former and fail to make the connection to the God who made it'.
Morgan became established and was lionized as a popular novelist with The Wild Irish Girl (1806), a paean of praise to Ireland.
This half-hour paean to the glories of wild rivers and wild trout is presented in the form of a Holy Trinity of its finest examples: the intermountain West's Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone.
or was the dream-- this hymm, this ecstatic paean, this woven music of color and form, of the sense of airy space-- was the dream showing forth the power of memory now, today or at any moment of need?
39-41), has made evident the poetry within the homilies, for example the paean to Mary, star of the sea, in paragraph 17 of the second homily.
SALISBURY stages a paean to the British Racing School today when the 11-runner finale is contested entirely by graduates of the Newmarket-based centre.
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