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Definition of Adulate
1. Verb. Flatter in an obsequious manner. "Sam cannot adulate Sue "
Definition of Adulate
1. v. t. To flatter in a servile way.
Definition of Adulate
1. Verb. To flatter effusively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adulate
1. to praise excessively [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulate
Literary usage of Adulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"TO adulate, FLATTER, COMPLIMENT. We adulate by discovering in our actions аз «ell
as wurds an entire subserviency : we flatter directly by words expressive ..."
2. Crabb's English Synonyms by George. Crabb (1917)
"Courtiers are guilty of adulation; lovers are addicted to flattery; people of
fashion in- adulate, FLATTER, COMPLIMENT. adulate, in Latin ..."
3. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"adulate, in Latin adul, participle of adular, is changed fron ... \Ve adulate by
discovering in ou actions an entire subserviency ..."
4. The Odes of Pindar in English Prose by Pindar, Gilbert West (1824)
"... and him they adulate, are the prophets of calumnies, in manners wholly like
unto foxes.b But as to gain,' of what great gain is this to them ? ..."
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