a. Obs. [f. FLATTER sb.1 or FLATTER-Y + -OUS.] Of, pertaining to, or suitable for a flatterer; flattering.
1546. Bale, 1st Exam. Anne Askewe, 18 b. Trust not to moche in the flatterouse faunynge of soche wylye foxes.
Hence Flatterously adv., flatteringly.
1667. Oldenburg, Lett. to Boyle, 3 Dec., in Boyle’s Wks. (1772), VI. 253. If we durst believe himself, who is flatterously given, he is much better, than he was before, as he tells us in a Latin account, he brought in to the Society.
