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▪ I. laud, n.1|lɔːd|
Forms: 4–7 laude, 6–7 lawd(e, 6– laud.
[a. OF. laude, ad. L. laud-em, laus praise.]
1. Praise, high commendation. Also † in laud of, honour and laud, laud and glory (honour, thanks); † to give laud. Now rare exc. in hymns.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 232 Pursevantes and herauldes That crien ryche folkes laudes. c1386― Prioress' T. 8 In laude..Of thee..To telle a storie I wol do my labour. ― Friar's T. 55 He was, if I shal yeven him his laude, A theef, and eek a somnour, and a baude. a1470Tiptoft Cæsar iv. (1530) 5 That the enterpryce myght be to the lawd and profyte of his legion. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxviii. 94 To hym that laude & thankys shulde be geuen vnto. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxvi. (Percy Soc.) 187 To the laude and glory Of wyse dame Pallas it was so edified. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 4125 Onely to God be laude and glore. 1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. iii. pr. vi. 53 They that falsely be praised, needs must they blush at their own laude. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 106 For which this Assembly and all Christians are to render laud and thankes unto God. 1640Gent Knave in Gr. ii. i. E b, So well, as æsop could discharge his scene, whereby he won most laud. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 442 Great laud and praise were mine..for spotless faith divine. 1819Jefferson Autobiog. App., Wks. 1859 I. 117 We willingly cede to her the laud of having..been..‘the cradle of sound principles’. 1849Longfellow Kavanagh xvii. Prose Wks. 1886 II. 346 Sibylline leaves..in laud and exaltation of her modest relative. 1858Neale Bernard de M. (1865) 27 His laud and benediction Thy ransomed people raise. 1879Dixon Windsor II. xxiv. 250 His chief employment being the laud of his dead love.
b. A cause or subject for praise. rare.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 351 It was na laude, nor ȝit Humanitie On sic ane wicht to schaw thame villanous. 1890J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. xiv. 278 That is not a fault: that is rather a laud.
†c. ? Praiseworthiness. Obs.
1576Gascoigne Compl. Philomene (Arb.) 94 And by the lawde of his pretence His lewdnesse was acquit.
2. pl. The first of the day-hours of the Church, the Psalms of which always end with Pss. cxlviii-cl, sung as one psalm and technically called laudes.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxii. 1 Þis salme is ay songen in þe lauds. a1400Prymer (1891) 88 Here begynneth laudes. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 180 Sir, this same day at morne I thaym left in the corne, When they rang lawdys. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 251 Meditacyons at the laudes, vnto the ende of matyns, diuided accordyng to euery psalme. a1711Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 20 The Evening Lamb..Was by the hallow'd Fire but half-consum'd, When Mary rose to Lauds. 1805Scott Last Minstr. i. xxxi, Now midnight lauds were in Melrose sung. 1843M. Pattison Diary in Mem. (1885) 190 At 6 went to Matins, which with Lauds and Prime take about an hour and a half.
transf.1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxiii. (Percy Soc.) 169 The lytle byrdes swetely dyd syng Laudes to their maker early in the mornyng. 1577W. Vallans T. Two Swannes in Leland's Itin. (1759) V. p. viii, The merrie Nightingale..Ringes out all night the never ceasing laudes Of God. 1659Hammond On Ps. lix. 16 Paraphr. 300 To make this the matter of my daily morning lauds.
3. A hymn or ascription of praise.
1530Palsgr. 237/2 Laude a prayse, laude. 1604Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 178 (2nd Qo.) Which time she chaunted snatches of old laudes. 1657Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer 247 So was it of old ordained..that the Lauds or Praises should be said..immediately after the Gospel. 1737Waterland Eucharist 49 The Christians offered up Spiritual Sacrifices, Prayers and Lauds. 1877Symonds Renaiss. Italy II. 320 An author of devotional lauds [= It. laude] and mystery plays.
▪ II. † laud, n.2 Obs.
[ad. med.L. laud-um, vbl. n. f. laudāre (laud v.), used in the extended sense ‘to give a judgement upon’.]
Decision, judgement.
c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 77 After long trete bothe partyes submytted theym to the laude and arbytrement of the kyng. 1542Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 416 To here and se þe decrete laude and sentence of forfaltour gevin.
▪ III. ‖ laud, n.3|laˈud|
[Sp.: see lute n.1]
A Spanish lute.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 276 The word [sc. lute]..is most probably from the Arabic el'ood, as the instruments came into Europe from the Moors through the Spaniards, who still call it laud. 1923Blackw. Mag. July 38/1 The Spanish laud or lute Jo had bought in Murcia during the previous year. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) I. 400/1 The instrument [sc. the bandurria] is in common use in the south of Spain, generally in conjunction with the laud and the guitarra.
▪ IV. laud, v.|lɔːd|
Forms: 5–7 laude, (5 loud), 6–7 lawde, 6– laud.
[ad. L. laud-āre, f. laud-, laus praise.]
trans. To praise, to sing or speak the praises of; to celebrate. Often to laud and bless (praise, magnify). Originally implying an act of worship.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 102 Neyther for loue laude it nouȝt ne lakke it for enuye. c1440Bone Flor. 1883 The lady..forthe ys gon, Loudyng the trynyte, To a noonre. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 68 So ye shal be happy, & your werkes lauded. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. viii. (Percy Soc.) 32 We ought to laude and magnify Your excellent springes of famous poetry. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 251 We excite & moue..all creatures to laude & blesse god. c1610Women Saints 34 They therefore fast and pray and lawde our Lord. 1670Walton Lives iv. 317 [They] did at Night..betake themselves to prayers, and lauding God. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Cui Bono? xii, To build a temple worthy of a god, To laud a monkey. 1833H. Martineau T. of Tyne vii. 122 He lauded the arrangements. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke v, To be called..ambitious for the very same aspirations which are lauded up to the skies in the sons of the rich. 1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. II. 1, I laud my stars, how⁓ever, that you will not have your first impressions of..our future home from such a day as this.
absol.1850Neale Med. Hymns (1867) 168 Sing we lauding And applauding.
Hence ˈlauded ppl. a.
1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 557 Son of the above lauded octogenarian. 1856J. Young Demonol. iv. vii. 437 More..than..all the elaborate disquisitions or lauded aphorisms of ancient and modern wisdom together.
absol.1887Chamb. Jrnl. IV. 12 A rising power that would crush..the lauders and the lauded.
▪ V. laud
obs. form of lewd. |