a. and sb. [ad. L. laudātōrius adj., f. laudāre to LAUD.] A. adj. Expressive of praise; eulogistic. Const. of.
1555. Abp. Parker, Ps., 326. This laudatory is: and thankth God’s gentlenes.
a. 1633. Austin, Medit. (1635), 190. His [Christ’s] Laudatory Sermon to the People concerning John.
1821. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), II. 44. The laudatory testimony inscribed upon it.
1824. Bentham, Bk. Fallacies, Wks. 1843, II. 413. The object of laudatory personalities is to effect the rejection of a measure.
1838. G. P. R. James, Robber, viii. Wiley muttered something not very laudatory of his companion.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., I. 291. An artist is not apt to speak in a very laudatory style of a brother artist.
1884. Times (weekly ed.), 10 Oct., 13/1. Monumental inscriptions, laudatory of gods and kings.
† B. sb. A laudatory discourse, a eulogy. Obs.
1620. E. Blount, Horae Subs., 353. I will not enter into a Laudatory thereof.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., 77. A laudatory of itself obtruded in the very first word.
Hence Laudatorily adv.
1847. Blackw. Mag., LXII. 323. A dangerous competitor recently and laudatorily noticed in the pages of Maga.
