allaud

English

Etymology

From Latin allaudāre. Doublet of allow.

Verb

allaud (third-person singular simple present allauds, present participle allauding, simple past and past participle allauded)

1. (transitive, rare) To praise, laud.
   • 1621, Symon Goulart, translated by T. W., The Wise-Vieillard, or Old Man. […], London: […] Iohn Dawson; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011, page 146:

     This terror floweth from the sense and feeling of the wrath of God, and a bad con∣science, with which when wicked ones come to feele themselues tormented, they haue no rest, nor can con∣ceiue nothing else but euill for them in death. There∣fore we cannot too much allaude and commend the say∣ing of Sineca in the Epistle 62. where he sayth; before I grew old I endeuoured and studied to liue well: In my old age I frame and dispose my selfe to die well.

   • 1654, G. G., “[Letters.] LV. Answer.”, in Tho[mas] Blount, The Academie of Eloquence. Containing a Compleat English Rhetorique, Exemplified, […], London: […] T. N. for Humphrey Moseley, […], page 201:

     HAving by the incloſed given you ſome few ſerious lines, let me now anſwer your facetious letter (of 10 Auguſt) with a joculatory line or two; And firſt by way of allauding your acuminous Exordium; but withall of ſhewing, you imediately miſtake the word ſuſception, if you think it can ſtand in a ſober ſence for underſtanding, however in a way of Raillery it may paſs.

   • 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of the forms and end of Medicaments”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, book IV ([…]), page 132:

     But Galen, (lib. 2. de prænot.) ſaith, that a Cook amongſt theſe children and fools is preferred before a Phyſician; and he is more commended and allauded, becauſe he daily indulges their genius with unaccuſtomed varieties and dainties.

   • 1832, Catalogue de l’exposition historique des souvenirs franco-américains de la guerre de l’indépendance, Paris: Imprimerie nationale, published 1893, page 81:

     Or his substitute, as our grand representative; to pay all full credit, to allaud every thing he may say ordo^[sic] in our name, and a behalf by virtue of these presents, promising to aknowledge the same as our act and deed; and to render to him all the honors which are due to his high qualities.

   • 1857, James Carr, “To Gen. Sir George Brown, G.C.B. […]”, in Heroes’ Wreaths: or, Tributes to the Brave. […], London: Longman and Co.; Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Ipswich: Haddock, […], page 35:

     May British hearts, with gen’rous tongue, / Thy brilliant deeds allauding, / E’er hover proud thy walks among / Pure gladness e’er affording; / […]

   • 1867, G[eorge] J[oseph] Williamson, “Our Brave Old Greenwich Boys”, in The Ship’s Career and Other Poems, 3rd edition, London: Thomas Murby, […], page 342:

     All honour to our nation’s name / Who noble deeds allaud, / While grateful to her sons of fame, / Forgets not to reward.