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verb

Extol v. t. (past & past part. extolled; pres. part. extolling)

To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. (Obs.) "Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties."

To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person. "Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus?"

Synonyms: To praise; applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify. See Praise.

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... the following information: "The cure-workers are divided into several categories. Some incline towards sorcery, and have faith in formulas and talismans only; they think they have done enough if they have driven out the spirit. Others extol the use of drugs; they study the qualities of plants and minerals, describe the diseases to which each of the substances provided by nature is suitable, and settle the exact time when they must be procured and applied; certain ...

— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtide of ...

— Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age • Various

... the disorder and evil, which is seen in the world, is not absolute and real, but relatively and apparently such, and does not disprove the divine wisdom and goodness. But may not one reply, that the goodness and wonderful order which they so much extol, and on which they found their notions of those qualities in God, are in a similar way only relative and apparent. If it be only our co-existence with the causes which surround us, and our manner ...

— Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever • Matthew Turner

... Art of our own time, since we can neither see the ends toward which it is almost blindly groping, nor the few perfected creations that will be left standing amidst the rubble of abortive effort. An age must always decry itself and extol its forbears. The unwritten history of every Art will show us that. Consider the novel—that most recent form of Art! Did not the age which followed Fielding lament the treachery of authors to the Picaresque tradition, complaining ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... fear, but methods change. It has come to seem wiser, if less orthodox, to urge that heaven is fair instead of insisting first that hell is so foul. And so perhaps it would be well for a change to bear less heavily upon the wages of sin, and extol, just a little, the wages of virture. For too constant insistence upon an evil thing is sure to breed doubt in the mind of one who is in the habit of thinking at all. It did in Cecille's. If it be so true, so inevitable, so frightful, surely it should be self-evident now and then, instead of a mere ...

— Winner Take All • Larry Evans

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