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▪ I. gloze, n.|gləʊz| Forms: 3–7, 9 glose, (4 glos, 5 gloce, gloyse, Sc. glois, gloss, 6 gloase, gloose), 6– gloze. Also gloss n.1 [a. OF. glose, ad. med.L. glōsa, L. glōssa, a word needing explanation, hence later the explanation itself, a. Gr. γλῶσσα, orig. tongue, hence language, foreign language, a foreign or obscure word.] 1. A comment, or marginal note; an exposition; = gloss n.1 1. arch.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4479 Þe glose of þe buke says alswa Þat [etc.]. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 13 Þe glose was gloriousely writen with a gilte penne. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxi. (1869) 147 Now vnderstonde it wel, and expownde it as þou wolt, both þe texte and þe glose. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 36 See nowe howe an euell glose confoundeth the text. 1579Fenton Guicciard. v. (1599) 212 Making gloses vpon the capitulations past, rather like a Lawyer, then as a king. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. lii. (1612) 234 That with new Glozes tainte the Text. 1834–43Southey Doctor Interch. xvii. (1862) 427 It is proper in this glose, commentary or exposition to [etc.]. 1855Browning Master Hugues Prol., Not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes. 2. Flattery, deceit; an instance of this, a flattering speech, etc. † to make glose (const. dat.), to talk smoothly or flatteringly to. Now rare.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 194/12 Heo, and hire douȝtren also maden hire þe glose. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2381 Me it ortrowede & ne leuede noȝt is glose. c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 158 This is a verray sooth with outen glose. c1450Bk. Curtasye 312 in Babees Bk., Yf any thurgh sturnes þe oppose, Onswere hym mekely and make hym glose. c1460Towneley Myst. xxii. 225 Thou has made many glose with thy fals talkyng. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 368 Women..giue more credit to their own glasses, than mens gloses. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. v, He..Spurns back the gloses of a fawning spirit. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Glose, flattery or dissimulation. 1874J. G. Holland Mistr. Manse ii. iii. 92 No..dainty gloze Could give him pleasure half so fine As that which tingled to her blows. b. A pretence, false show, specious appearance; also, a disguise. Now rare.
a1300Cursor M. 26774 Þai com to scrift a glos to make. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 1016 Ȝoure fingrus..ȝe fullen wiþ ryngus As is wommenus wone for wordliche glose. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. lxxi (1591) 39 This glose of vertues [L. falsæ virtutes] increased men's feare. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1598) 81 If then a bodily euill in a bodily gloze be not hidden, Shall [etc.]. 1600Holland Livy i. xxiii. (1609) 16 Gloses, and goodly shews of words. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. i. (1654) 11 We are naturally too apt..to flatter our⁓selves with fair glozes of bad intentions. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. (1848) I. ii. i. ii. §8. 55 A gloze, whether purposely worn or unconsciously assumed. 3. = gloss n.1 2 [ad. It. glosa].
1823Roscoe Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) II. xxxvi. 460 We also meet with several gloses or voltas upon a variety of devices or canzonets. 4. Comb., as gloze-giver.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xii. 65 Expowners and gloze ȝeuers. ▪ II. gloze, v.1|gləʊz| Forms: 4–6 glose(n, 5 glosin, -yn, 5–6 Sc. glois(s, gloss, 6 gloase, 6– gloze. [a. F. gloser (12th c.), f. glose gloze n.1 (OE. had glésan to gloss, interpret, f. *glóse, ad. L. glōssa).] †1. trans. To make glozes or glosses upon; to discourse upon, expound, interpret. Also, to interpret (a thing) to be (so and so). Obs.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 57, I font þere Freres..Glosynge þe Gospel as hem good likeþ. c1425Hampole's Psalter Metr. Pref. 23 Rychard Hampole Glosed the sauter that sues here. c1449Pecock Repr. i. vi. 31 Hise writingis ouȝten be glosid and be expowned. c1450Holland Howlat 35, I haue mekle matir in metre to gloss Of ane nothir sentence. 1453Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 190 Ane English boke of ye Pater Noster, glosid, with Matynes of ye Passion. 1513Douglas æneis viii. vii. 54 Quhairfor, myne awin hart deyr, Sa far about thou glosis thi mater? 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. To Rdr., Wks. 1888 I. 56 A werk..cunninglie gloissit be sum weill leirnit and discrete man. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 40 Which Salike land, the French vniustly gloze To be the Realme of France. 1762Crazy Tales 76 You may gloze any word. 1820Scott Monast. v, The church hath her ministers to gloze and to expound the same [the Word]. b. absol. or intr. To interpose a gloss or explanation; to comment. Const. on, upon; also in indirect passive.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 384 Clerkis..willen glose here and say [etc.]. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 254 For in pleyn text it nedyth nat to glose. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxvii. 85 No more men maye glosen withouten text than bylde materles. 1566T. Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel iii. 64 He saieth not, Not so rightly, as M. Jewell gloseth. 1581T. Watson Centurie of Loue xvii. (Arb.) 53 Yf Poets haue done well..To gloze on trifling toyes. 1614Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 821 Let your Authors glose as they list, Popery is but a yong faction. 1813Scott Rokeby i. xi, A while he glozed upon the cause, Of Commons, Covenant, and Laws. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. iv. 167 Tomes Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance. 1872Browning Fifine xxxi, Gloze No whit on your premiss. c. (See quot. and cf. gloze n.1 2.)
1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. i. ii. §43 In this [the Spanish glosa] a few lines..were glosed, or paraphrased..in a succession of stanzas, so that the leading sentiment should be preserved in each, as the subject of an air runs through its variations. 2. trans. To veil with specious comments; to palliate; to explain away, extenuate. Frequently with over; † also with out.
1390Gower Conf. I. 84 Telle out and let it nought be glosed. c1394P. Pl. Crede 345 Lere me to som man..Þat..gloseþ nouȝt þe godspell. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys p iv b, A ryche mannys dede may no man hyde nor glose. a1536Tindale Exp. Matt. v–vii. Wks. (1573) 187/2 They that..seeke liberties..to sinne vnpunished, and glose out the lawe of God. a1541Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 56 Nor I can not endure the truth to glose. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 242 Thus is the league made with Lewes the French kyng, fraudulently glosed and dissimuled. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 380 With what impudencie soever the wicked outwardlie gloze their corrupt dealings. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 31 Least he should..give Credit, to a thing so profane and detestable, however glosed over by those malitious People. 1827Hood Mids. Fairies xcii, Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law. 1845Whittier Lines Washington vi, With the tongue of flattery glozing deeds which God and Truth condemn. 1878in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 469 The facts of human iniquity are not disputed, glozed over, or extenuated. 1884R. Glover in Chr. World 9 Oct. 767/1 It is not charity to gloze over the sins and sorrows of men. 3. intr. To talk smoothly and speciously; to use fair words or flattering language; to fawn. Sometimes coupled with flatter; also to gloze it. Now rare.
a1300Cursor M. 8401 (Gött.) Neyder i kepe to gabb ne glose. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 1107, I kan nat glose, I am a rude man. c1400Destr. Troy 11468 Glose hit not lengur. 1519Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 4 Some to opteyn favour wyll flatter and glose. 1567R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) H iij b, Painted speache, that gloseth for gayne. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 704 Rogendorff..made as if he would have used only the Hungarians, and glosed with Revalius. 1632Sanderson 12 Serm. (1637) 606 Let us take heed we doe not gloze with him, as we doe one with another. 1783Whitehead Ode New Year 11 Ye Nations hear! nor fondly deem Britannia's ancient spirit fled; Or glosing weep her setting beam. 1833Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 202 The dog glozed with professions of life-weariness. 1848Lytton Harold ix. iii, We would not that thou shouldest learn too early how men's tongues can gloze and flatter. 1858W. Johnson Ionica, Reparabo ii, While my comrades pass away To bow and smirk and gloze. †b. quasi-trans. To tell speciously. Obs.—1
1608Rowlands Humors Looking Gl. 15 Vnto the Man he goes, And vnto him this fayned tale doth gloze. †c. trans. To clothe (words, etc.) with specious adornment.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. xviii. 90 This sentence is not glosed. 1509,c1630[see glozed ppl. a.]. 4. trans. To flatter, deceive with smooth talk; to coax, wheedle. Rarely const. to. Obs. exc. arch.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 34 Pes forto haue þei glosed him fulle mykelle. c1386Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 34 Of me certeyn thou shalt nat been yglosed. c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 758 [778] Now glose hem feire. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 96 His eem..glosyd him to hym wyth fayre woordys. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. xiii. 16 My two doughters glosed me tho and now of me they sette lytel prys. 1540–54Croke 13 Ps. (Percy Soc.) 21 They that me with tales wold glose, Agaynst me worke the worst they maye. 1555Abp. Parker Ps. xxxvi. 93 For he himselfe doth glose In hys bewitched eyes. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 61 The parasite glozes his master with sweet speeches. ▪ III. gloze, v.2 rare.|gləʊz| [Of obscure origin; cf. glow v.2] intr. To look earnestly and fixedly; to gaze with pleasure; to peer.
1853Jerdan Autobiog. IV. vii. 120 The pleasure of seeing oneself in print, [is] only to be estimated by those who have glozed over the type. 1864Mrs. Lloyd Ladies Polc. 103 That little Preventative fellow up on the cliff, that's al'ays a-glozing out to sea. Hence † gloze n., an eager look, a gaze.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. v. 56 Give a good glose from thy strain'd goggle eye. ▪ IV. gloze, v.3 rare.|gləʊz| [Cf. gloss n.2] a. intr. To shine brightly, to blaze; also, to gleam. b. trans. To cause to shine. Hence ˈglozing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1820A. Sutherland St. Kathleen III. 167 Gudewife, carry up a glozin' peat, an' kennel a spunk o' fire in them baith. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 396 An illusory glozing of the light glimmering dismally. Ibid. 398 The scanty light glosed them with the glory of day. |