allaud

Verb

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

1. (rare, transitive) To praise, laud.
   • 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...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....
   • 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...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