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adulatory, a.|ˈædjʊlətərɪ|
[ad. L. adūlātōri-us of or belonging to a flatterer; f. adūlātor. Cf. obs. Fr. adulatoire.]
Of or belonging to an adulator; full of adulation; servilely or fulsomely flattering.
1611Cotgr., Adulatoire (Fr.), Adulatorie, belonging to flattery, full of cogging. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. 1834, 276 [He] thinks no better of adulatory assentations then of a gnat[h]onic sycophantizing. a1733North Lives of Norths I. 386 After the adulatory manner of a court. 1790Burke Fr. Revol. 40 Dr. Price, in this sermon, condemns very properly the practice of gross, adulatory addresses to kings. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. iv. §52. 296 He wrote to Leo X. in a style rather too adulatory. |