Meaning of laudate | Babel Free

Definitions

To laud.

uncommon

Examples

“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.”

“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 persecution.”

“To laudate the originators or patronizers is no part of our intention, their works bear witness; it is alone from our firm conviction of the utility of the institution in itself, that we desire to give it all the publicity we can, and in this the newspaper press in general might do well to afford their aid.”

“A candidate appears to solicit the suffrages of the electors. He is perhaps execrated, then tolerated, then laudated.”

“In wishing to indicate our contempt for such men, we have perhaps leaned unadvisedly to the contrary side and viewed with favor the pretensions of empirical and self-laudating ignoramuses.”

“For instance, a fever, a case of croup, a case of intermittent, a case of cholera, &c., &c., throughout the entire catalogue of diseases, A has maintained that one remedy should be selected, B thought another best adapted, C disagreed with both, D was disposed to adopt one remedy each of the three had suggested and add one of his own, E believes the disease was inflammation, F thought it was debility, and both claim to be right, although opposite means are recommended, G goes in for bleeding, H advocates large doses, I repudiates large doses, and prescribes small ones, J cures his cases of intemittents^([sic]) by bleeding, K cures his by tonics, L cures his with cold water, M prescribes warm or hot water baths, N has seen electricity do gigantic things, O talks about calomel and alternate doses of blue pills, P prefers willow bark, Q laudates quassi, R rather thinks Columbo is preferable or in combination, […]”

“Steam is the horse’s great benefactor. 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.”

“Here, then, was a human jaw from the same deposits with the much discussed flint implements, and if geologists had wished to espouse any anti-biblical cause what more easy than to laudate the discovery and hold it forth as the proof?”

“Nevertheless, it is some hopeful consolation to know that, although, from various and obvious reasons, the inequalities in the rifling principles may in small arms be no more than may be overcome by mechanical contrivances and reduced to trifling differences of range and precision, yet as the size of artillery guns, fired with unyielding iron shot, and not yielding leaden bullets, is increased from larger to larger dimensions, the defects of the various systems of rifling will become more and more disproportionate and exaggerated; and in this way, however parties may continue to laudate the guns of particular makers, and those produced at so much cost to the nation, the bigger the ordnance required for the national service the more certainly will the best system be brought unmistakably in front of all competitors, until, in the end, as we have no hesitation in predicting the long-neglected oval-bore will be proved to be the only method upon which guns of enormous size can be constructed with anything like a chance of an endurance appropriate to their cost of manufacture.”

“Nothing succeeds like success, and it having become a fashion to laudate Mr. Sullivan, the press seem never tired of daubing him with untempered mortar; but what the verdict of posterity will be is a different matter.”

“In the same Journal Dr. Thomas Keith of Edinburgh laudates ether at the expense of chloroform, on the ground that in ovariotomy cases the use of chloroform is followed by prolonged vomiting which is not the case with ether.”

“Then, may we not properly ask, will the historians of the next one hundred years be able to laudate the deeds of patriotism and devotion of our present rulers and office-holders, and with sincere charity fold the mantle of silence over their many shortcomings and wicked practices in the administration of the government?”

“And yet Mr. McCulloch, whose voice was still echoing with insults to the Continental men, turns with obsequiousness as Heapy as Uriah himself could desire, to laudate Alexander Hamilton, who, of all men connected with American financial history, is the most clear, the most pronounced, and the most unequivocal in favor of establishing a system of Paper Money such as should render us entirely independent of European control.”

“In 1886, just ten years after my article in the Reporter, some one sent me a monograph written by Dr. J. Pirnat, of Evansville, Indiana, in which he laudates as almost a specific for this disease a prescription of Dr. L. Dohme, of Dayton, Ohio.”

“The object of the writer, who, we have strong reason to conclude, is a clerk in the Exchequer Office, is, apparently, to impeach the Collecting Friendly Societies and the Industrial Assurance Companies on the ground of their high collecting expenses, and to laudate the Post Office, which, however, as everybody knows, neither accepts weekly premiums nor collects.”

“I am aware that many people, from whom better should be expected, have not hesitated to describe my previous publications on this subject as an attempt to laudate the O’Farrells, as they say, “because I am a Farrell myself.””

“The press betrayed liberty and the country as Judas betrayed his Master, but unlike the remorseful Jew, it audaciously glorifies its treason and laudates the infamous laws that entailed bondage upon the nation and slavery and misery upon the people.”

“His style as a lecturer was easy, yet often very pompous—never losing an opportunity to laudate his own merits and to depreciate the ability of others.”

“The manufacturing pharmacist, now firmly established, comes into our field, samples our physicians with his numerous specialties, pulls the wool over their eyes as it were with seductive testimonials, therapeutic notes, etc., and laudates his wares as superior from the fact that they are prepared in quantity; […]”

“For instance, it is recorded of a very distinguished surgeon, who was appointed to deliver the Hunterian oration at the Royal College of Surgeons, that anxious possibly to go upon fresh lines he commenced with a historical prelude so long that he never once mentioned the great surgeon he was desired to laudate, nor had he in the prescribed time arrived at the century in which he lived.”

“Without any desire on my part to laudate the present administration, it seems to me that this fact is a subject of congratulation to the people of West Virginia.”

“As a rule the same pessimistic opinion of the world condemns the city as a hotbed of vice and laudates the country.”

“We are the remnants of the Iron Youth so laudated by the Germans.”

“They were followed by this much laudated dog Major, Snowball’s brother, Major Thornton’s entry, a brindle dog wearing the buff sheet, on one side of which were the arms of the Thornton family whilst on the other side in letters of gold appeared embroidered MAJOR aut ne plus ultra, which translated means, “Nothing can be greater than Major!””

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