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verb

Laud v. i. (past & past part. lauded; pres. part. lauding) To praise in words alone, or with words and singing; to celebrate; to extol. "With all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name."

noun

Laud n.

High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory. "Laud be to God." "So do well and thou shalt have laud of the same."

A part of divine worship, consisting chiefly of praise; usually in the pl. Note: In the Roman Catholic Church, the prayers used at daybreak, between those of matins and prime, are called lauds.

Music or singing in honor of any one.

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Etymology of 'Laud'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laud" Quotes from Famous Books

... this Sunday Leila felt a sense of spiritual soaring, of personally sharing the praises of the angel choir when, looking upwards, he said: "Therefore with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Thy glorious name." She recalled that John had said, "When Mark Rivers says 'angels and archangels' it is like ...

— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... an eye for color, it is quite safe to say, has not been born since Veronese. Had he been born at Venice among his peers, forced to work instead of experiment, outvied instead of foolishly extolled, surrounded by artists to surpass him if he tripped for a single instant, instead of critics to laud his most glaring faults and amateurs to pay thousands for his spoiled paper, we should have had another name to use as explanatory of genius. As it is, he is, according to present indications, utterly spoiled. Only those who know how he can draw ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... ruins. These structures belong partly to class III, villages on defensive sites, and partly to a subclass which pertained to a certain extent to all the others. In the early stages of pueblo architecture the people lived directly on the laud they tilled. Later the villages were located on low foothills overlooking the land, but in this stage some of the villages had already attained considerable size and the lands overlooked by them were not sufficient for their needs. As a consequence some of the inhabitants ...

— The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff

... Midland. Old Mercian Glossaries of the eighth century. The Lorica Prayer. The Vespasian Psalter. The Rushworth MS. Old Mercian and Wessex compared. Laud MS. of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The Ormulum. The English Proclamation of Henry III. (see the facsimile). Robert Mannyng of Brunne (Bourn). West Midland. The Prose Psalter. William of Palerne. The Pearl and Alliterative Poems. Sir Gawayne ...

— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat

... crucifix, before which the clergy made genuflexions. He erected Edinburgh into a bishopric, with the Collegiate Church of St. Giles for a cathedral, and the Bishops of Edinburgh, as they followed in rapid succession, gained the reputation of innovators and supporters of Laud and the English. Even more dangerous in its effect was a general order for the clergy to wear surplices. It was widely disobeyed, but ...

— An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) • Robert S. Rait

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