Meanings
present singular third person collauds · participle present collauding · participle past collauded · past collauded
- obsoleteTo join in praising or worshiping.
Beaſts wild and tame, / whom lodgings yield, / houſe, dens, or field, / Collaud his Name.
1628 August 10 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Captain Tho. B. from York. [A Gradual Hymn of a Double Cadence, Tending to the Honour of the Holy Name of GOD.]”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section V, page 194
Origin
- Latincollaudāre
- Englishcollaud
From Latin collaudāre, from col- + laudāre (“to praise”).
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