gloze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: glows
Forms: form: glozes
Etymology: From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. More at gloss.
Senses: examples: text: So we o’ershroud stars and roses,
Cherub and trophy and garland.
Nothings grow something which quietly closes
Heaven’s earnest eye,—not a glimpse of the far land
Gets through our comments and glozes.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”, in Men and Women, stanza 24:
text: 1903, Cuthbert Atchley, The Parish Clerk, and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle, Alcuin Club Tracts IV, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 15,
The state of practice in the first half of the fifteenth century may be gathered from the gloze of Nicholas de Tudeschis, called Panormitan, on the text Ut quisque which we have quoted above.
text: The relation of certain words in the original to the practice of my translation may require gloze.
ref: 1912, Ezra Pound, Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, London: Stephen Swift & Co., Introduction, page 3:
glosses: A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
examples: text: […] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n,
Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure,
And courtly glozes vile.
ref: 1803, Jerome Alley, The Judge; or, An Estimate of the Importance of the Judicial Character, London: Vernor & Hood, Canto III, page 97:
text: No tender word or dainty gloze
Could give him pleasure half so fine
As that which tingled to her blows.
ref: 1897, J. G. Holland, “Love’s Philosophies”, in The Mistress of the Manse, A Poem, New York: Scribner, III, p. 93:
glosses: Flattery.
examples: text: We have flattered thee, O Lord, with our tongues, and dissembled in our double hearts like the Israelites, whom thou hast fearfully punished in the sight of all the world, and saluted thee long with Judas kiss; to wit, with a vizard and show of religion, with the gloze of outward profession, drawing near thee with our lips, but our hearts far from thee […]
ref: 1585, John Aylmer, “A necessarie and godly prayer appoynted by the right reverend Father in God John, Bishop of London to be used throughout all his Dioces upon Sondayes and Frydayes, for the turning away of Gods Wrath”, in Two Forms of Prayer of the Time of Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge University Press, published 1876, page 12:
text: 1859, Leander Clark, “Sonnet No. 6” in Kenridge Hall, and Other Poems, Washington: Franklin Philp, p. 72,
Wear not the mask of Love upon thy face,
For fear my eye discern; ’twere better veil
The sweet serenity Love’s eye would trace,
Than with its gloze to make his visage stale.
text: Himself, he hints, is ever in the throes
Of some grim struggle for his Self’s control.
M’Corkle lies. He never fought. Speech is his rôle.
He’s putty, and his holiness all gloze.
ref: 1922, Don Marquis, “Savage Portraits, M’Corkle”, in Poems and Portraits, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 101:
qualifier: False
glosses: appearance.
examples: text: Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by:
Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, scene iv]:
glosses: A specious show, a deceit.