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单词 ingratiate
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ingratiatev.

Brit. /ɪnˈɡreɪʃɪeɪt/, /ɪŋˈɡreɪʃɪeɪt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪt/, /ɪŋˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪt/
Forms: Also 1600s engratiate, (past participle, transmission error) ingatiated.
Etymology: apparently < 16th cent. Italian ingratiare ‘to engrace’, to put in grace, reflexive ingratiarsi (now ingraziarsi) ‘to engrace or insinuate himself into favour’ (Florio), < phrase in grazia (†in gratia), Latin in grātiam into favour.
1. transitive. To bring (a person) into favour (with any one); to render (him) agreeable (to any one).
ΚΠ
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 49 The Embassador..to ingratiate his Master with his holinesse, told him [etc.].
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 197 All this would not ingratiate this Usurper with them.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xvii. 310 He hath ingatiated us, or brought us into the grace, favour and acceptance of God.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 207 This..might ingratiate Hadad with Pharaoh.
1755 Man ix. 4 We shall endeavour..to ingratiate this respectable order with the people.
2.
a. reflexive. To get oneself into favour; to gain grace or favour with; to render oneself agreeable to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > curry favour [verb (reflexive)]
ingratiate1622
plausibilize1655
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 100 This Taxe..was abolished by Richard the Third..to ingratiate himselfe with the people.
1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) iii. 176 Should I my selfe ingratiate T' a Princes smile?
1644 C. Jessop Angel Church of Ephesus 5 That he might the better engratiate himselfe in the eyes of that..Prelate.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 34 If he did not [do] somewhat to ingratiate himself to the People.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. ii. 47 Several of the court who ingratiated themselves by offerings of pictures and curiosities.
1853 T. B. Macaulay Atterbury in Biogr. (1867) 16 At the coronation..[he] did his best to ingratiate himself with the royal family.
b. with various pleonastic extensions.
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1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 64 On design to ingratiate himself in the good opinion of the Hugonots of France.
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xv. 431 To ingratiate himself in their affections and good wills.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 27 Mar. 1/1 Desirous to ingratiate themselves further into their Favour.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxviii. 197 A convict,—into whose good-will this gentleman had so far..ingratiated himself.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1876) II. ii. i. 248 He ingratiated himself still farther in the esteem of the Sicilians.
3. intransitive (for reflexive)Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Luke xvii. 19) Thus gratitude ingratiates with Christ and gets more grace.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 519 Those, that think to ingratiate with Him by calumniating Me.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 12 The methods of civility proper for removing all suspicions of themselves, and ingratiating with whatever company they fall into.
4. transitive. To make (a thing) pleasant, agreeable, or acceptable (to or with). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > quality of being approvable or acceptable > make acceptable [verb (transitive)]
recommend1582
ingratiatea1635
to carry offa1640
a1635 R. Sibbes Heavenly Conf. (1656) 11 Things, when wanted, are ingratiated to us, as warmth after cold, and meat after hunger.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xx. 142 Such as might more ingratiate with God the persons and prayers of people there assembled.
1676 W. Temple Let. to Charles II 3 Mar. in Wks. (1720) II. 379 A Clause..which he thought was put in on purpose to ingratiate it to Your Majesty.
a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 186 Novelty commendeth and ingratiateth them..but..the possession of them deadneth the appetite.
a1748 I. Watts Improvem. Mind ii. vi, in Coll. Wks. (1753) V. 346 That he may ingratiate his discourses with their ears.

Derivatives

inˈgratiating n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]
fawninga1350
adulationc1400
papelardya1425
papelardrya1500
captation1523
clawing1548
insinuation1553
curry-favour1581
man-pleasing1588
courting1607
men-pleasing1615
supparasitation1620
sycophantizing1640
assiduity1641
ingratiating1642
licking1648
man-pleasance1656
sycophancy1657
fawnery1661
sycophantrya1677
nutting1789
tuft-hunting1789
cultivation1793
huggery1804
ingratiation1815
sycophantism1821
lickspittling1839
toadyship1839
toadyism1840
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
arse-licking1912
lickspittle1914
apple-polishing1926
pot-licking1929
brown-nosing1934
ass-kissing1936
arse-kissing1937
ass-licking1946
sucking-up1946
bum-sucking1949
love bomb1975
love-bombing1976
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective]
fikingc1230
papelarda1500
gnathonical1540
clawing1574
pickthank1575
slavering1575
claw-back1577
courting1580
fawning1585
adulatory1587
insinuating1592
insinuative1592
scraping1599
adulatorious1612
men-pleasing1615
pickthanking1621
sycophantical1632
gnathonic1637
insinuanta1639
sycophantizing1640
ingratiating1642
led1672
sycophanting1674
sycophantly1680
sycophanta1684
sycophantica1698
pickthankly1702
assiduous1725
foot-licking1786
tuft-hunting1789
sycophantish1821
favour-currying1831
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
creepy-crawly1890
slauming1904
toadyish1909
ass-licking1940
ass-kissing1942
brown-nosing1946
arse-licking1950
sucky1991
1642 P. Heylyn Hist. Episcopacie i. ii. 62 His ingratiating with the Jewes.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 102 A Jesuite of excellent Morals, and ingratiating Converse.
1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty (1662) 230 The concessions of which..had been a very great indulgence and ingratiating to women of greatest quality.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. ix. 276 Lord Isla was..if artful, at least not ingratiating.
1896 O. Smeaton Allan Ramsay i. 11 The ingratiating qualities..of her father's guest.
inˈgratiˌatingly adv. in an ingratiating manner, in a way to win favour.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adverb]
clawingly1566
fawningly1591
ambitiously1598
adulatoriously1601
sycophantically1643
sycophantly1672
smoothingly1843
sycophantishly1847
insinuatingly1860
ingratiatingly1886
1886 Longman's Mag. Feb. 423 The..lad bowed ingratiatingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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