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
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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
"You know as well as I that it does not gloze a poor book, nor pass over defects in silence."
From The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford
True, his accent had not that subtle gloze, that consonantal softness and intonation that mark the Southron, but he was a Southron for all that, and one of themselves.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
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
Why should we gloze and flatter, to be proved Liars hereafter?
From Oedipus Trilogy by Francis Storr
Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
Man, when redeemed from falsehood and evil, rejects his books "of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"; and the veil is torn aside from all "believed and hoped."
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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 Hallie Erminie Rives
By comparison, the Past, though glozed beyond all semblance of truth, is a clinging heritage of canonised ignorance, brutality and baseness; a drag rather than a stimulus.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
"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 James Fenimore Cooper
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
They are especially admirable in the putting forth of sentiments, in glozing over a subtle difficulty in love, in tying a knot of silk or fastening a lock of hair to their bonnet.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope.
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
By way of glozing over these incongruities Lenin's ukase proclaimed that the measures enacted were only provisional, and aimed at enabling Russia to realize the great transformation by degrees.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
Nor gold leaf nor tool is employed without, but within how many fallacies are enveloped in glozing words; the gold leaf has its representative in "legal fiction;" and as for "tooling" there's plenty of that!
From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover
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