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laudate

laudate verb: to laud.

Verb

laudate (third-person singular simple present laudates, present participle laudating, simple past and past participle laudated)

  1. (uncommon) To laud.
    • After some laudating remarks on the character of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. T. said, that it was not proposed to be placed in the Capitol, but in the yard.1834, The Register of Debates; Being a Report of the Speeches Delivered in the Two Houses of Congress, Reported for the United States Telegraph. […], 23d Congress—1st Session, volume III, Washington...
    • Mr. Furley is laudated and exalted as a man of more than common talent,—as a star of the first magnitude, because Mr. Lawry has seen him in the pulpit of the old meeting-house at Tresayes, and because he led a superintendent preacher by the arm, through the streets of St. Austell in a time of...1839, Charles Lyne, Second Pastoral Letter to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Roche, in the County of Cornwall, from Their Faithful and Affectionate Minister, Charles Lyne, […] J. H. Drew, […], page...

Examples of laudate in a sentence

  • Furley is laudated and exalted as a man of more than common talent,—as a star of the first magnitude, because Mr.1839, Charles Lyne, Second Pastoral Letter to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Roche, in the County of Cornwall, from Their Faithful and...
  • He is perhaps execrated, then tolerated, then laudated.1847, “Practical Politics. The Recent Elections.”, in G[eorge] J[acob] Holyoake, editor, The Reasoner: and Utilitarian Record, volume III...
  • The equine family ought to laudate steam, and, if possible, raise monuments to it to remind future generations of prancers of the miserable bondage from which the vapor of water has raised them.1860, Lenderman, Lenderman’s Thousand Characters and Ten Thousand Practical Facts from Common Life. […], Cincinnati, Oh.: […] M. A. Arnold....
  • Nothing succeeds like success, and it having become a fashion to laudate Mr.1874 March 28, “Bristol.—(From our Correspondent.)”, in The Musical Standard, volume VI, London: Reeves & Turner: […], page 211, column 2:

Forms of laudate

third-person singular presentlaudates
present participlelaudating
past participlelaudated
pastlaudated

Origin of laudate

Borrowed from Latin laudātus, perfect passive participle of laudō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of laud.

Questions about laudate

What does laudate mean?
Laudate means to laud.
How do you use laudate in a sentence?
Furley is laudated and exalted as a man of more than common talent,—as a star of the first magnitude, because Mr.
What part of speech is laudate?
Laudate is a verb.
What is the past tense of laudate?
The past tense of laudate is laudated.

Words near laudate in the dictionary

  1. laudanum
  2. laudanumed
  3. laudanuming
  4. laudanums
  5. Laudat
  6. laudate
  7. laudated
  8. laudates
  9. laudating
  10. laudation
  11. laudations

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