/extol/

 

/extol/ or /extoll/

 

Verb.

 

-) Pronunciation and accent: ɛkstɒl, ɛkstəʊl.

 

-) Etymology: from Latin extollĕre (= to elevate), from ex- (prefix) + tollĕre (= to raise, lift). 

 

-) Preterite tense: extolled. Preterite participle: extolled.

 

-) Present participle: extolling.

 

-) It is dated from the end of 1400.

Transitively: 1. Obsolete: to elevate; to place on high. 

 

2. To praise highly or greatly; to talk extollingly about.

 

-) Synonyms of the verb extol: to magnify, celebrate, commend, eulogize, laud.

 

-) Translation: vanter, in French; exaltar, in Spanish; esaltare, in Italian.

-) Antonyms of the verb extol: to discommend, to depreciate, blame, to reproach, reprove, censure, carp at, scold, chide, rebuke, reprimand, berate, taunt, twit, snub.

 I should not have been so severe upon this actor, had I not seen him extolled by his partisans with the most ridiculous and fulsome manifestations of praise, even in those very circumstances wherein (as I have observed) he chiefly failed.

Tobias Smollett… Peregrine Pickle 1751

The coffee, which at first I had declined, but which all present extolled to the skies, seemed to offer an antidote to the Chinese poison.

The Repository of arts… 1824

Shell fish have been greatly extolled by some physicians, as nutritive and easily digestible articles of food.

The Mirror of Literature 1828

-) In reflexive construction:

 

From what I have here asserted, let it not be imagined that my object is to extol myself and to depreciate others.

The New Sporting Magazine 1832

-) English words derived from the verb EXTOL: extolling, extolled, extoller, extollingly.

-) English words derived from Latin tollĕre: see ELATE.