collaud

English

Etymology

From Latin collaudāre, from col- + laudāre (“to praise”).

Verb

collaud (third-person singular simple present collauds, present participle collauding, simple past and past participle collauded)

1. (obsolete) To join in praising.
   • 1628 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Captain Tho. B. from York. [A Gradual Hymn of a Double Cadence, Tending to the Honour of the Holy Name of GOD.]”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section V, page 194:

     Beaſts wild and tame, / whom lodgings yield, / houſe, dens, or field, / Collaud his Name.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “collaud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)