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Gloze   Listen
noun
Gloze  n.  
1.
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. "Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by."
2.
Specious show; gloss. (Obs.)





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"Gloze" Quotes from Famous Books



... to thee some joyous jests may show in gentle gloze, And frankly feed thy bended eares with passing pleasant prose: So that thou daine in seemly sort this wanton booke to view, That is set out and garnisht fine, with written phrases new. I will declare how one by hap ...
— The Golden Asse • Lucius Apuleius
... effects of sorrow for his valiant sons, Whose loss hath pierc'd him deep, and scarr'd his heart; And rather comfort his distressed plight Than prosecute the meanest or the best For these contempts.—[Aside] Why, thus it shall become High-witted Tamora to gloze with all: But, Titus, I have touch'd thee to the quick, Thy life-blood on't; if Aaron now be wise, Then is all safe, the ...
— The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... advice of German leeches, sleep with pebbles in their mouths. For, as of a boiling pot the lid must be set ajar, so with these fleshy 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. Yet 'tis more a custom than very nature, for their women come among the tipplers, and do but stand a moment, and as it were, kiss the wine-cup; and are indeed most temperate in ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade


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