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gloze
[glohz]
verb (used with object)
to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed byover ).
verb (used without object)
Archaic.to make glosses; comment.
noun
Archaic.flattery or deceit.
Obsolete.a specious show.
gloze
/ ɡəʊ /
verb
to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
to use flattery (on)
noun
flattery or deceit
an explanatory note or gloss
specious or deceptive talk or action
Other 51Թ Forms
- glozingly adverb
- unglozed adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gloze1
Example Sentences
For, as of a boiling pot the lid must be set ajar, so with these fleshly wine-pots, to vent the heat of their inward parts: spite of which many die suddenly from drink; but 'tis a matter of religion to slur it, and gloze it, and charge some innocent disease therewith.
It was natural that a mother should feel this strongly, and in a wrong-headed feminine way make difficulties greater in her efforts to gloze them over.
These are to assure you, then, that let you pray how you may, or gloze over your base treatment with fine cozening 51Թs and fair Promises, you shall have neither lot nor scot in my Threasure, which is indeed as you surmise hidden away in England, but the Secret whereof I shall impart neither to you nor to no man.
The prophet is induced to say smooth things, to announce easy principles, to gloze over hard interpretations, to keep out of sight unwelcomed truths; and extraordinary courage is required of those who would resist this tendency to complaisance.
Doub′le-gild, to gild with double coatings of gold: to gloze over.—n.
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