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Definition of Gloze
1. v. i. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
2. v. t. To smooth over; to palliate.
3. n. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Definition of Gloze
1. Noun. A comment in the margin. ¹
2. Noun. Flattery. ¹
3. Noun. False appearance. ¹
4. Noun. A specious show, a deceit. ¹
5. Verb. To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gloze
1. to explain away [v GLOZED, GLOZING, GLOZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloze
Literary usage of Gloze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"Der. eft-glottis. gloze, to interpret, flatter. ... gloze ; see Gloss (2). Glue.
(F. - L.) Ofglu. ..."
2. Euripides the rationalist: a study in the history of art and religion by Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1895)
"No man of sensibility, who had acted as he has done, could fail to be aware that,
however he might gloze or bluster, to all impartial eyes he must make a ..."
3. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"4. 88: see second favour. glow, to make to glow: To glow the delicate cheeks, Ant.
ii. 2. 209. gloze, to expound, to comment: the French unjustly gloze, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"E. also gloser; < ME. gloser; < gloze + -erl.] 1. A glosser or glossator ; an
explainer. It is necessary that I be the declarer or ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To gloze, (gloze) un To flatter; to wheedle ; to comment. This should be £/OSS.
To gloze, (gloze) ». a. To palliate by specious exposition. ..."
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