ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.] Basely flattering, fawning.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. Pref. 8. A set of adulating courtiers.
1796. Miss Burney, Camilla, VIII. ix. His adulating airs as little suited that character, as his inclination.
