laudate

present singular third person laudates · participle present laudating · participle past laudated · past laudated

1. uncommonTo laud.

   A candidate appears to solicit the suffrages of the electors. He is perhaps execrated, then tolerated, then laudated.

   1847, “Practical Politics. The Recent Elections.”, in G[eorge] J[acob] Holyoake, editor, The Reasoner: and Utilitarian Record, volume III, number 64, London: J. Watson, […], page 443

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   After some laudating remarks on the character of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. T. said, that it was not proposed to be placed in the Capitol, but in the yard.

   1834, The Register of Debates; Being a Report of the Speeches Delivered in the Two Houses of Congress, Reported for the United States Telegraph. […], 23d Congress—1st Session, volume III, Washington, D.C.: […] Duff Green, page 401, column 2

   Mr. Furley is laudated and exalted as a man of more than common talent,—as a star of the first magnitude, because Mr. Lawry has seen him in the pulpit of the old meeting-house at Tresayes, and because he led a superintendent preacher by the arm, through the streets of St. Austell in a time of persecution.

   1839, Charles Lyne, Second Pastoral Letter to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Roche, in the County of Cornwall, from Their Faithful and Affectionate Minister, Charles Lyne, […] J. H. Drew, […], page 23

   To laudate the originators or patronizers is no part of our intention, their works bear witness; it is alone from our firm conviction of the utility of the institution in itself, that we desire to give it all the publicity we can, and in this the newspaper press in general might do well to afford their aid.

   1840, “Drummond’s Agricultural Museum, Stirling”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, second series, volume the second, London: Office […], page 414, column 2

   In wishing to indicate our contempt for such men, we have perhaps leaned unadvisedly to the contrary side and viewed with favor the pretensions of empirical and self-laudating ignoramuses.

   1847 September, “Prejudices of Physicians. [From the New York Mail, edited by Park Benjamin.]”, in The Western Medical Reformer, and Eclectic Journal, volume I, number 2 (whole 74), Cincinnati, Oh., page 33

   For instance, a fever, a case of croup, a case of intermittent, a case of cholera, &c., &c., throughout the entire catalogue of diseases, A has maintained that one remedy should be selected, B thought another best adapted, C disagreed with both, D was disposed to adopt one remedy each of the three had suggested and add one of his own, E believes the disease was inflammation, F thought it was debility, and both claim to be right, although opposite means are recommended, G goes in for bleeding, H advocates large doses, I repudiates large doses, and prescribes small ones, J cures his cases of intemittents^([sic]) by bleeding, K cures his by tonics, L cures his with cold water, M prescribes warm or hot water baths, N has seen electricity do gigantic things, O talks about calomel and alternate doses of blue pills, P prefers willow bark, Q laudates quassi, R rather thinks Columbo is preferable or in combination, […]

   1852, C. D. Williams, The Reviewer Reviewed, an Address, Delivered Before the Class of the Western College of Homeopathic Medicine, […], Cleveland, Oh.: Gray & Wood—Plain Dealer Steam Press, page 22