a. [ad. L. adūlātōri-us of or belonging to a flatterer; f. adūlātor. Cf. obs. Fr. adulatoire.] Of or belonging to an adulator; full of adulation; servilely or fulsomely flattering.
1611. Cotgr., Adulatoire (Fr.), Adulatorie, belonging to flattery, full of cogging.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. 1834, 276. [He] thinks no better of adulatory assentations then of a gnat[h]onic sycophantizing.
a. 1733. North, Lives of Norths, I. 386. After the adulatory manner of a court.
1790. Burke, Fr. Revol., 40. Dr. Price, in this sermon, condemns very properly the practice of gross, adulatory addresses to kings.
1838–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. I. iv. § 52. 296. He wrote to Leo X. in a style rather too adulatory.
