GLOZE

Etymology

Noun

gloze (plural glozes)

A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

Flattery.

(False) appearance.

A specious show, a deceit.

Verb

gloze (third-person singular simple present glozes, present participle glozing, simple past and past participle glozed)

(literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

To use flattering language.

To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

To give a shine to (something or someone).

Synonyms

• See also flattery

Anagrams

• Goelz

Source: Wiktionary


Gloze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glozed(); p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing.] Etym: [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation.]

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, v. t.

Definition: To smooth over; to palliate. By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor.

Gloze, n.

1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. Shak.

2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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