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
I will not shun to uphold The righteous cause, nor will I gloze the wrong With flattering titles, lest the kindling wrath Of an offended Maker, sweep me hence.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
I would not gloze my crime, nor do I know How to address your worships.
From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar
"Don't try to gloze it over," cut in Blake.
From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames
He did not stoop to gloze his own monumental flippancy.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
It woke her out of her dreams; glozed and dewy from them she looked at it, and smiled at him through it.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
So she had thought of him since his evanishment with a regret less sharp for being glozed with a certain contempt.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
Whereat, remembering how she had formerly glozed and gilded the entomologist's unthrift, I remarked, one-fourth in play, three-fourths in earnest, "A good plain business man isn't the least noble work of God, after all."
From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington
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 Lover, Samuel
"So glozed the Tempter, and his poison tuned; Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling."
From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.
From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
Nina was determined that there should be no glozing of matters, no soft words used effectually to stop her in her projected course.
From Nina Balatka by Trollope, Anthony
"Now it seems that thou art a coward, Hall," Swanhild said when he had done, "and I scarcely looked for that in thee," for she had not been deceived by the glozing of his speech.
From Eric Brighteyes by Haggard, Henry Rider
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 Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
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