gloze

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

   “So we o’ershroud stars and roses, Cherub and trophy and garland. Nothings grow something which quietly closes Heaven’s earnest eye,—not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes.”

2. isim Flattery.

   “[…] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n, Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure, And courtly glozes vile.”

3. isim appearance.

   “1859, Leander Clark, “Sonnet No. 6” in Kenridge Hall, and Other Poems, Washington: Franklin Philp, p. 72, Wear not the mask of Love upon thy face, For fear my eye discern; ’twere better veil The sweet serenity Love’s eye would trace, Than with its gloze to make his visage stale.”

4. isim A specious show, a deceit.

   “Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?”

5. fiil To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

   “Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him.”

6. fiil To use flattering language.

   “[…] looke to see the throne where you should sit, To floate in bloud, and at thy wanton head, The glozing head of thy base minion throwne.”

7. fiil To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

   “1906, E. A. Baker, Introduction to Moll Flanders and Roxana, G. Routledge & Sons (New York), p. xviii, …his contempt for every romantic or sentimental motive that would gloze over real causes, and represent the conduct of human beings rather as we would have it to be than as it is…”

8. fiil To give a shine to (something or someone).

   “The scanty light glozed them with the glory of day, and, forgetful of pain and thirst and hunger, and of the menace of death, they sank upon the floor and cried, keeping fast hold of each other the while.”