[ɡləʊz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make excuses for
(e.g: the demeanour of Mathews is rather glozed over)

- use ingratiating language
(e.g: we would not that thou shouldst learn too early how men's tongues can gloze and flatter)

- make a comment or comments
(e.g: tomes of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French gloser, from glose ‘a gloss, comment’, based on Latin glossa (see gloss)