laudate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laudates
form: laudating
form: laudated
form: laudated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laudātus, perfect passive participle of laudō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of laud.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1840, “Drummond’s Agricultural Museum, Stirling”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, second series, volume the second, London: Office […], page 414, column 2:
text: A candidate appears to solicit the suffrages of the electors. He is perhaps execrated, then tolerated, then laudated.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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, […]
ref: 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:
text: Steam is the horse’s great benefactor. The equine family ought to laudate steam, and, if possible, raise monuments to it to remind future generations of prancers of the miserable bondage from which the vapor of water has raised them.
ref: 1860, Lenderman, Lenderman’s Thousand Characters and Ten Thousand Practical Facts from Common Life. […], Cincinnati, Oh.: […] M. A. Arnold. […], page 145:
text: Here, then, was a human jaw from the same deposits with the much discussed flint implements, and if geologists had wished to espouse any anti-biblical cause what more easy than to laudate the discovery and hold it forth as the proof?
ref: 1863 May 23, “Science. The Abbeville Jaw.”, in The London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art, and Science, volume VI, London: […], page 561, column 1:
text: Nevertheless, it is some hopeful consolation to know that, although, from various and obvious reasons, the inequalities in the rifling principles may in small arms be no more than may be overcome by mechanical contrivances and reduced to trifling differences of range and precision, yet as the size of artillery guns, fired with unyielding iron shot, and not yielding leaden bullets, is increased from larger to larger dimensions, the defects of the various systems of rifling will become more and more disproportionate and exaggerated; and in this way, however parties may continue to laudate the guns of particular makers, and those produced at so much cost to the nation, the bigger the ordnance required for the national service the more certainly will the best system be brought unmistakably in front of all competitors, until, in the end, as we have no hesitation in predicting the long-neglected oval-bore will be proved to be the only method upon which guns of enormous size can be constructed with anything like a chance of an endurance appropriate to their cost of manufacture.
ref: 1866 June 2, “Heavy Rifled Ordnance. [From the London Standard.]”, in The United States Army and Navy Journal, and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Publication Office, […], page 652, column 1:
text: Nothing succeeds like success, and it having become a fashion to laudate Mr. Sullivan, the press seem never tired of daubing him with untempered mortar; but what the verdict of posterity will be is a different matter.
ref: 1874 March 28, “Bristol.—(From our Correspondent.)”, in The Musical Standard, volume VI, London: Reeves & Turner: […], page 211, column 2:
text: In the same Journal Dr. Thomas Keith of Edinburgh laudates ether at the expense of chloroform, on the ground that in ovariotomy cases the use of chloroform is followed by prolonged vomiting which is not the case with ether.
ref: 1875, George E[dgeworth] Fenwick, editor, Canada Medical and Surgical Journal. A Monthly Record of Medical and Surgical Science., volume III, Montreal, Que.: […] [T]he “Gazette” Printing House, page 439:
text: Then, may we not properly ask, will the historians of the next one hundred years be able to laudate the deeds of patriotism and devotion of our present rulers and office-holders, and with sincere charity fold the mantle of silence over their many shortcomings and wicked practices in the administration of the government?
ref: 1876 April 12, C. H. Farnsworth, “Address of the President. The Centennial Year of Our Country, and Its Institutions.”, in Publications of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, from 1871 to 1877 Inclusive, volume IV, Boston, Mass.: Otis Clapp & Son, […], published 1878, page 627:
text: And yet Mr. McCulloch, whose voice was still echoing with insults to the Continental men, turns with obsequiousness as Heapy as Uriah himself could desire, to laudate Alexander Hamilton, who, of all men connected with American financial history, is the most clear, the most pronounced, and the most unequivocal in favor of establishing a system of Paper Money such as should render us entirely independent of European control.
ref: 1879, Stephen D[evalson] Dillaye, The Empire of Money. A Review of Hon. Hugh McCulloch’s Seven Lectures Before Harvard University, […], Lowell, Mass.: Levi H. Whitney & Co., […] Harrington Bro’s, […], page 18:
text: In 1886, just ten years after my article in the Reporter, some one sent me a monograph written by Dr. J. Pirnat, of Evansville, Indiana, in which he laudates as almost a specific for this disease a prescription of Dr. L. Dohme, of Dayton, Ohio.
ref: 1889 January, J. H. Peabody, “[Original Articles.] An Essay: On the Treatment of Diphtheria with Oil of Turpentine.”, in J. C. Denise, editor, The Omaha Clinic, volume I, number 10, Omaha, Neb.: H. J. Penfold, […], page 249, columns 1–2:
text: The object of the writer, who, we have strong reason to conclude, is a clerk in the Exchequer Office, is, apparently, to impeach the Collecting Friendly Societies and the Industrial Assurance Companies on the ground of their high collecting expenses, and to laudate the Post Office, which, however, as everybody knows, neither accepts weekly premiums nor collects.
ref: 1890 June 20, “Improvident Thrift. [From the London Commercial World.]”, in The Baltimore Underwriter: A Semi-Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Insurance in All Its Branches, volume XLIII, Baltimore, Md.: Charles C. Bombaugh, […], page 307, column 2:
text: I am aware that many people, from whom better should be expected, have not hesitated to describe my previous publications on this subject as an attempt to laudate the O’Farrells, as they say, “because I am a Farrell myself.”
ref: 1891, James P. Farrell, “Preface”, in History of the County Longford, Illustrated, Dublin: Dollard, […]:
text: The press betrayed liberty and the country as Judas betrayed his Master, but unlike the remorseful Jew, it audaciously glorifies its treason and laudates the infamous laws that entailed bondage upon the nation and slavery and misery upon the people.
ref: 1897, T. P. O’Connor, “Prostitution of the Press”, in The Gentleman Farmer, volume II, page 236, column 2:
text: His style as a lecturer was easy, yet often very pompous—never losing an opportunity to laudate his own merits and to depreciate the ability of others.
ref: 1897 October, Claudius Henry Mastin, “[Original Communications.] Reminiscences of the Life of a Medical Student of the Long Ago. […] Part IV.—The Faculty. Anatomy and Surgery.”, in The Alabama Medical and Surgical Age, volume 9, number 11, page 604:
text: The manufacturing pharmacist, now firmly established, comes into our field, samples our physicians with his numerous specialties, pulls the wool over their eyes as it were with seductive testimonials, therapeutic notes, etc., and laudates his wares as superior from the fact that they are prepared in quantity; […]
ref: 1898, The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 20, page 244, column 2:
text: For instance, it is recorded of a very distinguished surgeon, who was appointed to deliver the Hunterian oration at the Royal College of Surgeons, that anxious possibly to go upon fresh lines he commenced with a historical prelude so long that he never once mentioned the great surgeon he was desired to laudate, nor had he in the prescribed time arrived at the century in which he lived.
ref: 1900, British Medical Journal, page 273, column 2:
text: Without any desire on my part to laudate the present administration, it seems to me that this fact is a subject of congratulation to the people of West Virginia.
ref: 1901, Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia, page 13:
text: As a rule the same pessimistic opinion of the world condemns the city as a hotbed of vice and laudates the country.
ref: 1901, The Baltimore Underwriter. A Semi-Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Insurance in All Its Branches., volume LXVI, page 12, column 1:
text: We are the remnants of the Iron Youth so laudated by the Germans.
ref: 1932, Arthur W[illiam] Upfield, A Royal Abduction, Exile Bay: ETT Imprint, published 2020, →ISBN:
text: They were followed by this much laudated dog Major, Snowball’s brother, Major Thornton’s entry, a brindle dog wearing the buff sheet, on one side of which were the arms of the Thornton family whilst on the other side in letters of gold appeared embroidered MAJOR aut ne plus ultra, which translated means, “Nothing can be greater than Major!”
ref: 2017, Edward C. Ash, The Book of the Greyhound, Read Books Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: To laud.