Forms: 5–7 laude, (5 loud), 6–7 lawde, 6– laud. [ad. L. laud-āre, f. laud-, laus praise.] trans. To praise, to sing or speak the praises of; to celebrate. Often to laud and bless (praise, magnify). Originally implying an act of worship.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XI. 102. Neyther for loue laude it nouȝt ne lakke it for enuye.
c. 1440. Bone Flor., 1883. The lady … forthe ys gon, Loudyng the trynyte, To a noonre.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 68. So ye shal be happy, & your werkes lauded.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., VIII. (Percy Soc.), 32. We ought to laude and magnify Your excellent springes of famous poetry.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 251. We excite & moue … all creatures to laude & blesse god.
c. 1610. Women Saints, 34. They therefore fast and pray and lawde our Lord.
1670. Walton, Lives, IV. 317. [They] did at Night … betake themselves to prayers, and lauding God.
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Cui Bono? xii. To build a temple worthy of a god, To laud a monkey.
1833. Ht. Martineau, T. of Tyne, vii. 122. He lauded the arrangements.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, v. To be called … ambitious for the very same aspirations which are lauded up to the skies in the sons of the rich.
1868. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks., II. 1. I laud my stars, however, that you will not have your first impressions of … our future home from such a day as this.
absol. 1850. Neale, Med. Hymns (1867), 168. Sing we lauding And applauding.
Hence Lauded ppl. a.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 557. Son of the above lauded octogenarian.
1856. J. Young, Demonol., IV. vii. 437. More … than … all the elaborate disquisitions or lauded aphorisms of ancient and modern wisdom together.
absol. 1887. Chamb. Jrnl., IV. 12. A rising power that would crush … the lauders and the lauded.
