/ɪkˈstəʊl/, /ɪkˈstɒl/, /ɪkˈstoʊl/
OriginBorrowed from Latin extollō (“elevate, raise high”).
- transitiveTo praise; to make high.
“Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.”
“It not only congratulates the Pope, but panegyrizes his Holiness, extols the college of cardinals and the bishops of Italy, calls upon the ashes of the martyrs to rejoice, apostrophizes Peter and Paul”
“Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of”
Formsextols(present, singular, third-person) · extolling(participle, present) · extolled(participle, past) · extolled(past)