† glozern.
Obsolete.
1. One who writes glosses; a commentator.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss > writer of glosses
glossatorc1380
glozer1380
glosser1603
glossographer1607
glossist1641
glottographer1660
glossary?1706
glossarist1778
glossograph1885
glossarian1887
1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 284 Falce gloseris maken goddis lawe derk.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/2 Glosare of textys, glosator.
1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1567) 226 But that these woordes..touche..onely the Priestes and the Ministers, the very Gloser [1611 glosser] him selfe was neuer..so impudent, so to saie.
15.. Fulke in J. Marbeck Bk. of Notes (1581) 55 These words (saith the Romish gloser) are the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall power.
2. A flatterer, sycophant.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] > flatterer
fickler?c1225
losenger1303
glothererc1325
flatterera1340
blander1340
flatter1340
glozera1420
fleecherc1425
fager1435
soother1553
smooth-boots1599
sleekstonea1610
blandisher1611
cogger1611
over-prizer1611
smoother1611
colloguer1631
dauber1642
pargetera1656
flattercap1681
whillywhaa1682
sweetener1728
proneur1809
carney1818
soft-soaper1839
soft-solderer1851
smooth-sayer1872
incenser1873
soft-mouth1881
blarneyer1882
flannel-mouth1882
oiler1883
jollier1896
smoodger1898
plámáser1919
sweet-talker1946
smarmy1957
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3088 A gloser also kepethe his silence Often, where he his lorde seethe hym mystake.
1456 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 235 Now gloserys fulle gayly they go.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 105 Simplist glosars, & warst willid traytoris.
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iv. i. sig. Di Yet must I talke so sage and smothe, as though I were a glosier [rhyme-wd. loser].
1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. B3v Else would not soothing Glosers oyle the Sonne, Who, while his Father lude his Acts did hate.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cxxxix. 24 Annot.) 680/2 God would at length discover and bring out such glozers.
1783 Ainsworth's Thes. Linguæ Latinæ (new ed.) i A glozer, adulator.
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