Obs. [f. prec.] trans. To act the sycophant towards. a. To slander, calumniate, traduce. b. To flatter meanly; also intr. to play the sycophant (= SYCOPHANTIZE 2). Hence † Sycophanting ppl. a.
1637. Heywood, Pleas. Dial., xiv. Wks. 1874, VI. 230. Nor sycophant they us, such things to attaine By us.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1851, III. 261. By sycophanting and misnaming the worke of his adversary.
1674. Govt. Tongue, viii. 150. His Sycophanting arts being detected.
1704. J. Macmillan, in H. M. B. Reid, Camerenian Apostle (1896), App. i. 223. A sycophanting age.
