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Webster 1913 Edition
Gloze
Gloze
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glozed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glozing
.] 1.
To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
Chaucer.
A false,
glozing
parasite. South.
So
glozed
the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
2.
To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.
Shak.
Gloze
,Verb.
T.
To smooth over; to palliate.
By
glozing
the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor.
Gloze
,Noun.
1.
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Now to plain dealing; lay these
glozes
by. Shakespeare
2.
Specious show; gloss.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gloze
GLOZE
,Verb.
I.
So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd.
A false glozing parasite.
GLOZE
,Noun.
1.
Specious show; gloss. [Not used. See Gloss.]Definition 2024
gloze
gloze
English
Noun
gloze (plural glozes)
Verb
gloze (third-person singular simple present glozes, present participle glozing, simple past and past participle glozed)
- (literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 279:
- Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / [...] / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male […]
- William Shakespeare & Anonymous; Pericles, Prince of Tyre:
- ANTIOCHUS.
Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre.
- ANTIOCHUS.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 279:
- To smooth over; to palliate.
- I. Taylor
- By glozing the evil that is in the world.
- 1906, E. A. Baker, Introduction to Moll Flanders and Roxana, G. Routledge & Sons (New York), p. xviii:
- …his contempt for every romantic or sentimental motive that would gloze over real causes, and represent the conduct of human beings rather as we would have it to be than as it is…
- I. Taylor
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:flattery