gloze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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Archaic. flattery or deceit.
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Obsolete. a specious show.
verb
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to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
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to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
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to use flattery (on)
noun
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flattery or deceit
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an explanatory note or gloss
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specious or deceptive talk or action
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gloze
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss 2
Example Sentences
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"For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable."
From Time Magazine Archive
But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
It's the pair o' them," Tommy said to Elspeth at the first opportunity, "that sometimes comes here at nights and kindles the fire and warms themsels at the gloze.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Why should we gloze and flatter, to be proved Liars hereafter?
From Oedipus Trilogy by Francis Storr
They now repent the deed of blame, Would gladly gloze it over; They dare not glory in their shame; The facts almost they cover.
From Rampolli by George MacDonald
They glozed his faults and made virtues out of his close-grained traits; they praised and lamented, with sighs and mournful words, but Isom’s widow could not weep.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
He saw the agrarian feud—not as he had been wont to read of it, glozed over by the New York papers.
From Stories by English Authors: Ireland by Samuel Lover
Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
He glozed the matter thus: he had persuaded the owner it was better to take a good tenant at a moderate loss, than to let the Bijou be uninhabited during the present rainy season.
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
For Shelley laws are “obscure records of dark and barbarous echos,” “tomes of reasoned wrong glozed on by ignorance.”
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Here are no sons of Atreus nor glozing Ulysses.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Ho, ye who heard me speak so long and oft The glozing word that led me to my will?
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
He rejected all the glozing euphemisms which had lulled the House of Lords.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
Perturbéd at dews that drip from dome As wattling apes their horrors groan, The witch forsakes each glozing gnome, Affrighted at this gurgling vale.
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
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