gloze

American  

[glohz] / gloʊz /

verb (used with object)

glozed, glozing

1. to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed byover ).

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verb (used without object)

glozed, glozing

1. Archaic. to make glosses; comment.

noun

1. Archaic. flattery or deceit.

2. Obsolete. a specious show.

gloze British  

/ ɡləʊz /

verb

1. to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of

2. to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)

3. to use flattery (on)

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noun

1. flattery or deceit

2. an explanatory note or gloss

3. specious or deceptive talk or action

Other Word Forms

• unglozed
  adjective
• glozingly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of gloze

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss ²

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

gloze glozed glozing

"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

For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The ham dip gaed up the lum in a gloze, an' here was Sandy an' Dauvid's wife lyin' i' the middle o' a' the mairter o' rubbitch.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

"I surely should have lost every claim to your good opinion if I had glozed it over and passed it by for personal reasons," Baynell argued after Ashley had gone.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

A lie is a lie, be it told in never so good a cause; a thing deplorable and not to be glozed over or boasted of after the fact.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

So long as this apparently inevitable and irremediable discord does not appear to affect the general march of events, it is glozed over.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned: Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling; at length, Not unamazed, she thus in answer spake.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

So the matter might be adjudged elsewhere, but in this world glozed and softened.

From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston

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

Me canst thou cheat with glozing wile Till self-reproach away I cast,— Me with joy's lure canst thou beguile;— Let that day be for me the last!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke

And ever Love hears the poor-folks' crying, And ever Love hears the women's sighing, And ever sweet knighthood's death-defying, And ever wise childhood's deep implying, But never a trader's glozing and lying.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

To guide with glozing words, vilely cajole With petty perjuries?

From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Why need she be again tempted by pride, or curiosity, or glozing words, to forfeit her own Eden?

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement

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