glozen.

/ɡləʊz/

Forms: Middle English–1600s, 1800s glose, (Middle English glos, Middle English gloce, gloyse, Scottish glois, gloss, 1500s gloase, gloose), 1500s– gloze. Also gloss n.¹

Etymology: < Old French glose, < medieval Latin glōsa, Latin glōssa, a word needing explanation, hence later the explanation itself, < Greek γλῶσσα, originally tongue, hence language, foreign language, a foreign or obscure word.

1. A comment, or marginal note; an exposition; = gloss n.¹ 1. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss

gloze1340

gloss1548

exegesis1600

glossem1608

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4479 Þe glose of þe buke says alswa Þat [etc.].

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 13 Þe glose was gloriousely writen with a gilte penne.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxi. 147 Now vnderstonde it wel, and expownde it as þou wolt, both þe texte and þe glose.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvi See nowe howe an euell glose confoundeth the text.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin v. 277 Making gloses vppon the capitulations past rather lyke a Lawyer, then as a king.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. lii. 236 That with new Glozes tainte the Text.

1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 340 It is proper in this glose, commentary or exposition, to [etc.].

1855 R. Browning Master Hugues Prol. Not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes.

a. Flattery, deceit; an instance of this, a flattering speech, etc. †to make glose (const. dative), to talk smoothly or flatteringly to. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun]

fickling?c1225

flattering?c1225

oluhningc1225

glozec1290

glozing1297

losengery1303

blandishingc1305

blandingc1315

flatteryc1320

glotheringc1325

soothinga1400

honey word?1406

faginga1425

flatrisec1440

smekingc1440

blandishc1475

blandiment?1510

glavering1545

coggingc1555

good1563

milksop1577

court holy water1583

glavery1583

blandishment1591

lipsalve1591

court holy bread1592

flatter1593

colloguing1596

sooth1597

daub?1602

blandation1605

lullaby1611

court-water1616

butter1618

blandiloquy1623

oil1645

court-element1649

courtshipment1649

courtship1655

blandiloquence1656

court-creama1657

daubing1656

fleecha1700

Spanish money1699

cajole1719

whiting1721

palaver1733

butter boat1747

flummery1749

treacle1771

Spanish coin1785

blancmange1790

blarney1796

soft corn1814

whillywha1816

carney1818

buttering up1819

soft soap1821

flam1825

slaver1825

soft solder1836

soothing syrup1839

soft-soaping1840

plámás1853

sawder1854

soap1854

salve1859

taffy1878

plámásing1897

flannel1927

smarm1937

flannelling1945

sweet talk1945

schmear1950

smarming1950

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb]

oluhnec1225

to make glosec1290

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 194/12 Heo, and hire douȝtren also maden hire þe glose.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2381 Me it ortrowede & ne leuede noȝt is glose.

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 158 This is a verray sooth with outen glose.

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 312 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 308 Yf any thurgh sturnes þe oppose, Onswere hym mekely and make hym glose.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxii. 279 Thou has made many glose With thy fals talkyng.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 75^v Women..giue more credite to their own glasses, than mens gloses.

1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 309 He..Spurnes backe the gloses of a fawning spirit.

1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Glose, flattery or dissimulation.

1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse ii. iii. 92 No..dainty gloze Could give him pleasure half so fine As that which tingled to her blows.

b. A pretence, false show, specious appearance; also, a disguise. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]

hue971

glozea1300

showingc1300

coloura1325

illusionc1340

frontc1374

simulationc1380

visage1390

cheera1393

sign?a1425

countenance?c1425

study?c1430

cloak1526

false colour1531

visure1531

face1542

masquery?1544

show1547

gloss1548

glass1552

affectation1561

colourableness1571

fashion1571

personage?1571

ostentation1607

disguise1632

lustrementa1641

grimace1655

varnish1662

masquerade1674

guisea1677

whitewash1730

varnish1743

maya1789

vraisemblance1802

Japan1856

veneering1865

veneer1868

affectedness1873

candy coating1885

simulance1885

window dressing1903

a1300 Cursor Mundi 26774 Þai com to scrift a glos to make.

1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1016 Ȝoure fingrus..ȝe fullen wiþ ryngus As is wommenus wone for wordliche glose.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. G6^v If then a boddily euill in a boddily gloze be not hidden, Shall [etc.].

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 39 This glose of vertues [L. falsæ virtutes] increased men's feare.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) i. xxiii. 16 Gloses, and goodly shews of words.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. i. 14 We are naturally too apt..to flatter our selves with faire glozes of bad intentions.

1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 67 A gloze, whether purposely worn or unconsciously assumed.

3. = gloss n.¹ 2 [ < Italian glosa] .

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > gloss

gloss1598

gloze1823

1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (1846) II. xxxvi. 460 We also meet with several gloses or voltas upon a variety of devices or canzonets.

Compounds

gloze-giver n.

ΚΠ

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 65 Expowners and glose ȝeuers to Holi Scripture ben cursid.

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glozev.¹

/ɡləʊz/

Forms: Middle English–1500s glose(n, Middle English glosin, glosyn, Middle English–1500s Scottish glois(s, gloss, 1500s gloase, 1500s– gloze.

Etymology: < French gloser (12th cent.), < glose gloze n. (Old English had glésan to gloss, interpret, < *glóse, < Latin glōssa).

†1.

a. transitive. To make glozes or glosses upon; to discourse upon, expound, interpret. Also, to interpret (a thing) to be (so and so). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > gloss

glozec1390

gloss1603

glossate1884

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 57 I Font þere Freres..Glosynge þe Gospel as hem good likeþ.

c1425 Hampole's Psalter Metr. Pref. 23 Rychard Hampole Glosed the sauter that sues here.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 31 Hise writingis ouȝten be glosid and be expowned.

1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 190 Ane English boke of ye Pater Noster, glosid, with Matynes of ye Passion.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. vii. 54 Quhairfor, myne awin hart deyr, Sa far about thou glosis thi mater?

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 35 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 96 I haue mekle mater in meter to gloss Of ane nother sentence.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 56 A werk..cunninglie gloissit be sum weill leirnit and discrete man.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 40 Which salicke land the French vniustly gloze To be the realme of France.

1762 Crazy Tales 76 You may gloze any word.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 167 The church hath her ministers to gloze and to expound the same [sc. the Word].

b. absol. or intransitive. To interpose a gloss or explanation; to comment. Const. on, upon; also in indirect passive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > comment [verb (intransitive)]

glozec1380

gloss1579

scance1606

comment1611

annotate1733

commentate1828

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentaries [verb (intransitive)] > annotate

glozec1380

annotate1733

marginalizea1832

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 384 Clerkis..willen glose here and say [etc.].

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 254 For in pleyn text it nedyth nat to glose.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxvii. 85 No more men maye glosen withouten text than bylde materles.

1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie iii. 64 He saieth not, Not so rightly, as M. Jewell gloseth.

1581 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xvii, in Poems (1870) 53 Yf Poets haue done well..To gloze on trifling toyes.

1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 821 Let your Authors glose as they list; Popery is but a yong faction.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xi. 15 Awhile he glozed upon the cause Of Commons, Covenant, and Laws.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iv. 119 Tomes Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance.

1872 R. Browning Fifine xxxi Gloze No whit on your premiss.

c. (See quot. 1837 and cf. gloze n. 1.)

ΚΠ

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. ii. 165 In this [the Spanish glosa] a few lines..were glosed, or paraphrased..in a succession of stanzas, so that the leading sentiment should be preserved in each, as the subject of an air runs through its variations.

2. transitive. To veil with specious comments; to palliate; to explain away, extenuate. Frequently with over; †also with out.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)] > extenuate

whiteOE

gloze1390

colourc1400

emplasterc1405

littlec1450

polish?c1450

daub1543

plaster1546

blanch1548

flatter1552

extenuate1570

alleviate1577

soothe1587

mincea1591

soothe1592

palliate1604

sweeten1635

rarefy1637

mitigate1651

glossa1656

whitewash1703

qualify1749

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 84 Telle out and let it nought be glosed.

c1394 P. Pl. Crede 345 Lere me to som man..Þat..gloseþ nouȝt þe godspell.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxiii^v A ryche mannys dede may no man hyde nor glose.

?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew Prol. f. ix^v They that..seke liberties..to sinne vnpunisshed, and glose out the lawe of God.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxlvii. 5 Nor I can not endure the truth to glose.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlii Thus is the league made with Lewes the French kyng, fraudulently glosed and dissimuled.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 403 With what impudencie soeuer the wicked outwardly gloze their corrupt dealings.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 31 Least he should..give Credit, to a thing so profane and detestable, however glosed over by those malitious People.

1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xcii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 47 Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law.

1845 J. G. Whittier Lines Washington vi With the tongue of flattery glozing deeds which God and Truth condemn.

1878 in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 469 The facts of human iniquity are not disputed, glozed over, or extenuated.

1884 R. Glover in Christian World 9 Oct. 767/1 It is not charity to gloze over the sins and sorrows of men.

a. intransitive. To talk smoothly and speciously; to use fair words or flattering language; to fawn. Sometimes coupled with flatter; also to gloze it. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (intransitive)]

fikea1225

flatter?c1225

ficklec1230

blandisha1340

smooth1340

glaver1380

softa1382

glozec1386

to hold (also bear) up oila1387

glothera1400

flaitec1430

smekec1440

love?a1500

flata1522

blanch1572

cog1583

to smooth it1583

smooth1587

collogue1602

to oil the tongue1607

sleek1607

wheedle1664

pepper1784

blarney1837

to pitch (the) woo1935

flannel1941

sweet-talk1956

c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1107 I kan nat glose, I am a rude man.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8401 Neyder i kepe to gabb ne glose.

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Aij^v Some to opteyn fauour wyll flatter and glose.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11468 Glose hit not lengur.

a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Hiij^v Painted speache, that gloseth for gayne.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 704 Rogendorff..made as if he would haue vsed onely the Hungarians, and glosed with Reualius.

1635 R. Sanderson Two Serm. S. Pauls Crosse & Grantham i. 50 Let us take heed we doe not gloze with him, as we doe one with another.

1783 Whitehead Ode New Year 11 Ye Nations hear! nor fondly deem Britannia's ancient spirit fled; Or glosing weep her setting beam.

1833 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 274 The dog glozed with professions of life-weariness.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. ix. iii. 311 We would not that thou shouldst learn too early how men's tongues can gloze and flatter.

1858 W. Johnson Ionica, Reparabo ii While my comrades pass away To bow and smirk and gloze.

†b. quasi-transitive. To tell speciously. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse 15 Vnto the Man he goes, And vnto him this fayned tale doth gloze.

†c. transitive. To clothe (words, etc.) with specious adornment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)]

showc1175

feignc1340

clothe1393

colourc1400

gloze1430

pretence1548

whiten1583

maska1593

vizard1628

tissuea1639

to whiten up1746

act1790

veneer1875

histrionize1876

window dress1913

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iii. xviii. 90 This sentence is not glosed.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxix It is nat peasyd..With cunnynge of Retoryke ne glosyd eloquence.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth l. 70^v My vertue sheweth it selfe playnelie ynough without glosedde or payntedde wordes.

1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects Introd. Smiling out a glosed and bashfull familiarity.

4. transitive. To flatter, deceive with smooth talk; to coax, wheedle. Rarely const. to. Obsolete exc. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)]

flatter?c1225

flackera1250

slickc1250

blandishc1305

blandc1315

glozec1330

beflatter1340

curryc1394

elkena1400

glaverc1400

anointa1425

glotherc1480

losenge1480

painta1513

to hold in halsc1560

soothe1580

smooth1584

smooth1591

soothe1601

pepper1654

palp1657

smoothify1694

butter1700

asperse1702

palaver1713

blarney1834

sawder1834

soft-soap1835

to cock up1838

soft-solder1838

soother1842

behoney1845

soap1853

beslaver1861

beslobber1868

smarm1902

sugar1923

sweetmouth1948

smooth-talk1950

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 34 Pes forto haue þei glosed him fulle mykelle.

c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 34 Of me certeyn thou shalt nat been yglosed.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 758 [778] Now glose hem feire.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 96 His eem..glosyd him to hym wyth fayre woordys.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. xiii. 16 My two doughters glosed me tho and now of me they sette lytel prys.

a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) cii. 21 They that me with tales wold glose, Agaynst me worke the worst they maye.

?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xxxvi. 93 For he himselfe doth glose, In hys bewitched eyes.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 101 The parasite glozes his master with sweet speeches.

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glozev.²

/ɡləʊz/

Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare glow v.²

rare.

intransitive. To look earnestly and fixedly; to gaze with pleasure; to peer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze

stareOE

gawc1175

darea1225

porec1300

muse1340

glowc1374

gogglec1380

gazec1386

glore?a1400

glopc1400

govec1480

glower?a1513

gowk1513

daze1523

amuse1532

glew1587

to feed one's eyes1590

to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598

to shoot one's eyes1602

glazea1616

stargaze1639

gaum1691

to stare like a stuck pig1702

ygaze1737

gawk1785

to feed one's sight1813

gloze1853

glow1856

1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. vii. 120 The pleasure of seeing oneself in print, [is] only to be estimated by those who have glozed over the type.

1864 B. Lloyd Ladies Polcarrow 103 That little Preventative fellow up on the cliff, that's al'ays a-glozing out to sea.

Derivatives

† gloze n. Obsolete an eager look, a gaze.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > stare or gaze

stare1553

gaze1566

goggle1651

gloze1654

gape1660

glower1715

dead set1781

death stare1818

death glare1819

eyeful1847

gape-seed1852

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. v. 56 Give a good glose from thy strain'd goggle eye.

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glozev.³

/ɡləʊz/

Etymology: Compare gloss n.²

rare.

1. intransitive. To shine brightly, to blaze; also, to gleam.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)]

shinec725

brighteOE

blika1000

lightOE

shimmera1100

starec1225

lightena1382

blikena1400

glowa1400

sheenc1420

flourish1587

to stick off1604

lamp1609

skyre1677

gloze1820

moon1885

1820 [see glozing n. and adj. at Derivatives].

2. transitive. To cause to shine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > polish or cause to shine with reflected light

frot?c1225

burnishc1325

polisha1382

varnishc1405

silvera1592

shine1604

frub1611

rutilate1623

silken1757

gloss1762

pearl1843

gloze1880

lap1881

sheen1901

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 398 The scanty light glosed them with the glory of day.

Derivatives

ˈglozing n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1820 A. Sutherland St. Kathleen III. 167 Gudewife, carry up a glozin' peat, an' kennel a spunk o' fire in them baith.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 396 An illusory glozing of the light glimmering dismally.

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n.c1290

v.¹c1330

v.²1654

v.³1820

单词	gloze
释义	glozen. /ɡləʊz/ Forms: Middle English–1600s, 1800s glose, (Middle English glos, Middle English gloce, gloyse, Scottish glois, gloss, 1500s gloase, gloose), 1500s– gloze. Also gloss n.¹ Etymology: < Old French glose, < medieval Latin glōsa, Latin glōssa, a word needing explanation, hence later the explanation itself, < Greek γλῶσσα, originally tongue, hence language, foreign language, a foreign or obscure word. 1. A comment, or marginal note; an exposition; = gloss n.¹ 1. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss gloze1340 gloss1548 exegesis1600 glossem1608 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4479 Þe glose of þe buke says alswa Þat [etc.]. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 13 Þe glose was gloriousely writen with a gilte penne. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxi. 147 Now vnderstonde it wel, and expownde it as þou wolt, both þe texte and þe glose. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvi See nowe howe an euell glose confoundeth the text. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin v. 277 Making gloses vppon the capitulations past rather lyke a Lawyer, then as a king. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. lii. 236 That with new Glozes tainte the Text. 1838 R. Southey Doctor V. 340 It is proper in this glose, commentary or exposition, to [etc.]. 1855 R. Browning Master Hugues Prol. Not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes. 2. a. Flattery, deceit; an instance of this, a flattering speech, etc. †to make glose (const. dative), to talk smoothly or flatteringly to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] fickling?c1225 flattering?c1225 oluhningc1225 glozec1290 glozing1297 losengery1303 blandishingc1305 blandingc1315 flatteryc1320 glotheringc1325 soothinga1400 honey word?1406 faginga1425 flatrisec1440 smekingc1440 blandishc1475 blandiment?1510 glavering1545 coggingc1555 good1563 milksop1577 court holy water1583 glavery1583 blandishment1591 lipsalve1591 court holy bread1592 flatter1593 colloguing1596 sooth1597 daub?1602 blandation1605 lullaby1611 court-water1616 butter1618 blandiloquy1623 oil1645 court-element1649 courtshipment1649 courtship1655 blandiloquence1656 court-creama1657 daubing1656 fleecha1700 Spanish money1699 cajole1719 whiting1721 palaver1733 butter boat1747 flummery1749 treacle1771 Spanish coin1785 blancmange1790 blarney1796 soft corn1814 whillywha1816 carney1818 buttering up1819 soft soap1821 flam1825 slaver1825 soft solder1836 soothing syrup1839 soft-soaping1840 plámás1853 sawder1854 soap1854 salve1859 taffy1878 plámásing1897 flannel1927 smarm1937 flannelling1945 sweet talk1945 schmear1950 smarming1950 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb] oluhnec1225 to make glosec1290 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 194/12 Heo, and hire douȝtren also maden hire þe glose. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2381 Me it ortrowede & ne leuede noȝt is glose. c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 158 This is a verray sooth with outen glose. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 312 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 308 Yf any thurgh sturnes þe oppose, Onswere hym mekely and make hym glose. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxii. 279 Thou has made many glose With thy fals talkyng. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 75^v Women..giue more credite to their own glasses, than mens gloses. 1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) iii. v, in Wks. I. 309 He..Spurnes backe the gloses of a fawning spirit. 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Glose, flattery or dissimulation. 1874 J. G. Holland Mistress of Manse ii. iii. 92 No..dainty gloze Could give him pleasure half so fine As that which tingled to her blows. b. A pretence, false show, specious appearance; also, a disguise. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun] hue971 glozea1300 showingc1300 coloura1325 illusionc1340 frontc1374 simulationc1380 visage1390 cheera1393 sign?a1425 countenance?c1425 study?c1430 cloak1526 false colour1531 visure1531 face1542 masquery?1544 show1547 gloss1548 glass1552 affectation1561 colourableness1571 fashion1571 personage?1571 ostentation1607 disguise1632 lustrementa1641 grimace1655 varnish1662 masquerade1674 guisea1677 whitewash1730 varnish1743 maya1789 vraisemblance1802 Japan1856 veneering1865 veneer1868 affectedness1873 candy coating1885 simulance1885 window dressing1903 a1300 Cursor Mundi 26774 Þai com to scrift a glos to make. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1016 Ȝoure fingrus..ȝe fullen wiþ ryngus As is wommenus wone for wordliche glose. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. G6^v If then a boddily euill in a boddily gloze be not hidden, Shall [etc.]. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 39 This glose of vertues [L. falsæ virtutes] increased men's feare. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) i. xxiii. 16 Gloses, and goodly shews of words. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. i. 14 We are naturally too apt..to flatter our selves with faire glozes of bad intentions. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 67 A gloze, whether purposely worn or unconsciously assumed. 3. = gloss n.¹ 2 [ < Italian glosa] . ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > gloss gloss1598 gloze1823 1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (1846) II. xxxvi. 460 We also meet with several gloses or voltas upon a variety of devices or canzonets. Compounds gloze-giver n. ΚΠ c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 65 Expowners and glose ȝeuers to Holi Scripture ben cursid. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). glozev.¹ /ɡləʊz/ Forms: Middle English–1500s glose(n, Middle English glosin, glosyn, Middle English–1500s Scottish glois(s, gloss, 1500s gloase, 1500s– gloze. Etymology: < French gloser (12th cent.), < glose gloze n. (Old English had glésan to gloss, interpret, < glóse, < Latin glōssa). †1. a. transitive. To make glozes or glosses upon; to discourse upon, expound, interpret. Also, to interpret (a thing) to be* (so and so). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > gloss glozec1390 gloss1603 glossate1884 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 57 I Font þere Freres..Glosynge þe Gospel as hem good likeþ. c1425 Hampole's Psalter Metr. Pref. 23 Rychard Hampole Glosed the sauter that sues here. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 31 Hise writingis ouȝten be glosid and be expowned. 1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 190 Ane English boke of ye Pater Noster, glosid, with Matynes of ye Passion. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. vii. 54 Quhairfor, myne awin hart deyr, Sa far about thou glosis thi mater? a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 35 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 96 I haue mekle mater in meter to gloss Of ane nother sentence. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 56 A werk..cunninglie gloissit be sum weill leirnit and discrete man. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 40 Which salicke land the French vniustly gloze To be the realme of France. 1762 Crazy Tales 76 You may gloze any word. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 167 The church hath her ministers to gloze and to expound the same [sc. the Word]. b. absol. or intransitive. To interpose a gloss or explanation; to comment. Const. on, upon; also in indirect passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > comment [verb (intransitive)] glozec1380 gloss1579 scance1606 comment1611 annotate1733 commentate1828 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentaries [verb (intransitive)] > annotate glozec1380 annotate1733 marginalizea1832 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 384 Clerkis..willen glose here and say [etc.]. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 254 For in pleyn text it nedyth nat to glose. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxvii. 85 No more men maye glosen withouten text than bylde materles. 1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie iii. 64 He saieth not, Not so rightly, as M. Jewell gloseth. 1581 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xvii, in Poems (1870) 53 Yf Poets haue done well..To gloze on trifling toyes. 1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 821 Let your Authors glose as they list; Popery is but a yong faction. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xi. 15 Awhile he glozed upon the cause Of Commons, Covenant, and Laws. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iv. 119 Tomes Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance. 1872 R. Browning Fifine xxxi Gloze No whit on your premiss. c. (See quot. 1837 and cf. gloze n. 1.) ΚΠ 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. ii. 165 In this [the Spanish glosa] a few lines..were glosed, or paraphrased..in a succession of stanzas, so that the leading sentiment should be preserved in each, as the subject of an air runs through its variations. 2. transitive. To veil with specious comments; to palliate; to explain away, extenuate. Frequently with over; †also with out. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)] > extenuate whiteOE gloze1390 colourc1400 emplasterc1405 littlec1450 polish?c1450 daub1543 plaster1546 blanch1548 flatter1552 extenuate1570 alleviate1577 soothe1587 mincea1591 soothe1592 palliate1604 sweeten1635 rarefy1637 mitigate1651 glossa1656 whitewash1703 qualify1749 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 84 Telle out and let it nought be glosed. c1394 P. Pl. Crede 345 Lere me to som man..Þat..gloseþ nouȝt þe godspell. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxiii^v A ryche mannys dede may no man hyde nor glose. ?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew Prol. f. ix^v They that..seke liberties..to sinne vnpunisshed, and glose out the lawe of God. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxlvii. 5 Nor I can not endure the truth to glose. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlii Thus is the league made with Lewes the French kyng, fraudulently glosed and dissimuled. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 403 With what impudencie soeuer the wicked outwardly gloze their corrupt dealings. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 31 Least he should..give Credit, to a thing so profane and detestable, however glosed over by those malitious People. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xcii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 47 Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law. 1845 J. G. Whittier Lines Washington vi With the tongue of flattery glozing deeds which God and Truth condemn. 1878 in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 469 The facts of human iniquity are not disputed, glozed over, or extenuated. 1884 R. Glover in Christian World 9 Oct. 767/1 It is not charity to gloze over the sins and sorrows of men. 3. a. intransitive. To talk smoothly and speciously; to use fair words or flattering language; to fawn. Sometimes coupled with flatter; also to gloze it. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (intransitive)] fikea1225 flatter?c1225 ficklec1230 blandisha1340 smooth1340 glaver1380 softa1382 glozec1386 to hold (also bear) up oila1387 glothera1400 flaitec1430 smekec1440 love?a1500 flata1522 blanch1572 cog1583 to smooth it1583 smooth1587 collogue1602 to oil the tongue1607 sleek1607 wheedle1664 pepper1784 blarney1837 to pitch (the) woo1935 flannel1941 sweet-talk1956 c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1107 I kan nat glose, I am a rude man. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8401 Neyder i kepe to gabb ne glose. ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Aij^v Some to opteyn fauour wyll flatter and glose. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11468 Glose hit not lengur. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Hiij^v Painted speache, that gloseth for gayne. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 704 Rogendorff..made as if he would haue vsed onely the Hungarians, and glosed with Reualius. 1635 R. Sanderson Two Serm. S. Pauls Crosse & Grantham i. 50 Let us take heed we doe not gloze with him, as we doe one with another. 1783 Whitehead Ode New Year 11 Ye Nations hear! nor fondly deem Britannia's ancient spirit fled; Or glosing weep her setting beam. 1833 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 274 The dog glozed with professions of life-weariness. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. ix. iii. 311 We would not that thou shouldst learn too early how men's tongues can gloze and flatter. 1858 W. Johnson Ionica, Reparabo ii While my comrades pass away To bow and smirk and gloze. †b. quasi-transitive. To tell speciously. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse 15 Vnto the Man he goes, And vnto him this fayned tale doth gloze. †c. transitive. To clothe (words, etc.) with specious adornment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] showc1175 feignc1340 clothe1393 colourc1400 gloze1430 pretence1548 whiten1583 maska1593 vizard1628 tissuea1639 to whiten up1746 act1790 veneer1875 histrionize1876 window dress1913 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iii. xviii. 90 This sentence is not glosed. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxix It is nat peasyd..With cunnynge of Retoryke ne glosyd eloquence. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth l. 70^v My vertue sheweth it selfe playnelie ynough without glosedde or payntedde wordes. 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects Introd. Smiling out a glosed and bashfull familiarity. 4. transitive. To flatter, deceive with smooth talk; to coax, wheedle. Rarely const. to. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)] flatter?c1225 flackera1250 slickc1250 blandishc1305 blandc1315 glozec1330 beflatter1340 curryc1394 elkena1400 glaverc1400 anointa1425 glotherc1480 losenge1480 painta1513 to hold in halsc1560 soothe1580 smooth1584 smooth1591 soothe1601 pepper1654 palp1657 smoothify1694 butter1700 asperse1702 palaver1713 blarney1834 sawder1834 soft-soap1835 to cock up1838 soft-solder1838 soother1842 behoney1845 soap1853 beslaver1861 beslobber1868 smarm1902 sugar1923 sweetmouth1948 smooth-talk1950 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 34 Pes forto haue þei glosed him fulle mykelle. c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 34 Of me certeyn thou shalt nat been yglosed. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 758 [778] Now glose hem feire. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 96 His eem..glosyd him to hym wyth fayre woordys. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. xiii. 16 My two doughters glosed me tho and now of me they sette lytel prys. a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) cii. 21 They that me with tales wold glose, Agaynst me worke the worst they maye. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xxxvi. 93 For he himselfe doth glose, In hys bewitched eyes. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 101 The parasite glozes his master with sweet speeches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). glozev.² /ɡləʊz/ Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare glow v.² rare. intransitive. To look earnestly and fixedly; to gaze with pleasure; to peer. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > stare or gaze stareOE gawc1175 darea1225 porec1300 muse1340 glowc1374 gogglec1380 gazec1386 glore?a1400 glopc1400 govec1480 glower?a1513 gowk1513 daze1523 amuse1532 glew1587 to feed one's eyes1590 to seek, buy, or sow gape-seed1598 to shoot one's eyes1602 glazea1616 stargaze1639 gaum1691 to stare like a stuck pig1702 ygaze1737 gawk1785 to feed one's sight1813 gloze1853 glow1856 1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. vii. 120 The pleasure of seeing oneself in print, [is] only to be estimated by those who have glozed over the type. 1864 B. Lloyd Ladies Polcarrow 103 That little Preventative fellow up on the cliff, that's al'ays a-glozing out to sea. Derivatives † gloze n. Obsolete an eager look, a gaze. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > stare or gaze stare1553 gaze1566 goggle1651 gloze1654 gape1660 glower1715 dead set1781 death stare1818 death glare1819 eyeful1847 gape-seed1852 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. v. 56 Give a good glose from thy strain'd goggle eye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). glozev.³ /ɡləʊz/ Etymology: Compare gloss n.² rare. 1. intransitive. To shine brightly, to blaze; also, to gleam. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)] shinec725 brighteOE blika1000 lightOE shimmera1100 starec1225 lightena1382 blikena1400 glowa1400 sheenc1420 flourish1587 to stick off1604 lamp1609 skyre1677 gloze1820 moon1885 1820 [see glozing n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 2. transitive. To cause to shine. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > polish or cause to shine with reflected light frot?c1225 burnishc1325 polisha1382 varnishc1405 silvera1592 shine1604 frub1611 rutilate1623 silken1757 gloss1762 pearl1843 gloze1880 lap1881 sheen1901 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 398 The scanty light glosed them with the glory of day. Derivatives ˈglozing n. and adj. ΚΠ 1820 A. Sutherland St. Kathleen III. 167 Gudewife, carry up a glozin' peat, an' kennel a spunk o' fire in them baith. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 396 An illusory glozing of the light glimmering dismally. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.c1290v.¹c1330v.²1654v.³1820
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