Meaning

(uncommon) To laud..

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

A candidate appears to solicit the suffrages of the electors. He is perhaps execrated, then tolerated, then laudated.

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.

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, […]

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.

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?

Word Forms

• laudates
• laudating
• laudated

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