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单词 losenge
释义

losengev.

Forms: Also Middle English losynge.
Etymology: < Old French losenger = Provençal lauzengar , Spanish lisonjar , Portuguese lisonjear , Italian lusingare ; < Old French losenge , losange (noun) flattery = Provençal lauzenga , lauzenja , Spanish lisonja , Portuguese lisonja ; apparently adopted by the other Romance languages from Provençal lauzenga = Old French loenge (French louange ) praise < medieval Latin laudēmia , a derivative (? on analogy of vindēmia) of Latin laud-em praise: see lose n.1
Obsolete.
transitive. To flatter, compliment unduly. Const. of.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)]
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1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiii. xvii Thanne began Glaucus to call her and losenge her.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 129 Thay losyngid the kynge of Wayne-glory of the force of his hoste.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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