| slovo | definícia |
latter
(mass) | latter
- nedávny, neskorší |
latter
(encz) | latter,nedávný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
latter
(encz) | latter,posledně jmenovaný Zdeněk Brož |
latter
(encz) | latter,pozdější adj: Zdeněk Brož |
latter
(gcide) | Late \Late\ (l[=a]t), a. [Compar. Later (l[=a]t"[~e]r), or
latter (l[a^]t"t[~e]r); superl. Latest (l[=a]t"[e^]st) or
Last (l[.a]st).] [OE. lat slow, slack, AS. l[ae]t; akin to
OS. lat, D. laat late, G. lass weary, lazy, slack, Icel.
latr, Sw. lat, Dan. lad, Goth. lats, and to E. let, v. See
Let to permit, and cf. Alas, Lassitude.]
1. Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or
proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a
late spring.
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2. Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of
the day; a late period of life.
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3. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not
now; recently deceased, departed, or gone out of office;
as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.
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4. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the
late rains; we have received late intelligence.
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5. Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night;
as, late revels; a late watcher.
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Latter
(gcide) | Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[ae]tter, compar. of lat late.
See Late, and cf. Later.]
1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something
else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter
rain.
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2. Of two things, the one mentioned second.
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The difference between reason and revelation, and in
what sense the latter is superior. --I. Watts.
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3. Recent; modern.
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Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages,
whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke.
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4. Last; latest; final. [R.] "My latter gasp." --Shak.
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Latter harvest, the last part of the harvest.
Latter spring, the last part of the spring of the year.
--Shak.
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latter
(wn) | latter
adj 1: referring to the second of two things or persons
mentioned (or the last one or ones of several); "in the
latter case" [ant: former(a)]
n 1: the second of two or the second mentioned of two; "Tom and
Dick were both heroes but only the latter is remembered
today" [ant: former] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
flattery
(mass) | flattery
- lichotka |
latterday
(mass) | latter-day
- moderný, súčasný |
piece of flattery
(mass) | piece of flattery
- lichotka |
clatter
(encz) | clatter,hrkat v: Zdeněk Brožclatter,klapat v: Zdeněk Brožclatter,klapot n: Zdeněk Brožclatter,klepání n: Zdeněk Brožclatter,klepot n: Zdeněk Brož |
clattering
(encz) | clattering, adj: |
clattery
(encz) | clattery, adj: |
flatter
(encz) | flatter,lahodit v: lukeflatter,lichotit v: flatter,lichotivý adj: Zdeněk Brožflatter,pochlebovat v: lukeflatter,zalichotit v: Zdeněk Brož |
flattered
(encz) | flattered,lichotil v: Zdeněk Brožflattered,polichocený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
flatterer
(encz) | flatterer,lichotník n: Zdeněk Brožflatterer,pochlebovač n: luke |
flattering
(encz) | flattering,lichotivý adv: flattering,lichotný adj: |
flatteringly
(encz) | flatteringly,lichotivě adv: |
flattery
(encz) | flattery,lichocení n: Zdeněk Brožflattery,lichotka n: lukeflattery,lichotky n: Zdeněk Brožflattery,pochlebování n: Zdeněk Brož |
flattery will get you nowhere
(encz) | flattery will get you nowhere, |
latter-day
(encz) | latter-day,moderní adj: Zdeněk Brožlatter-day,současný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
latterly
(encz) | latterly,nedávno adv: Zdeněk Brož |
on a silver platter
(encz) | on a silver platter, |
piece of flattery
(encz) | piece of flattery,lichotka |
platter
(encz) | platter,podnos n: Zdeněk Brožplatter,tác n: Zdeněk Brož |
slattern
(encz) | slattern,prostitutka n: Zdeněk Brožslattern,špindíra n: Zdeněk Brož |
slatternliness
(encz) | slatternliness, n: |
slatternly
(encz) | slatternly,rozcuchaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
spin the platter
(encz) | spin the platter, n: |
splatter
(encz) | splatter,cákanec n: Zdeněk Brožsplatter,ošplouchat Zdeněk Brožsplatter,pocákat v: Zdeněk Brožsplatter,šplouchat v: Zdeněk Brož |
splattered
(encz) | splattered, adj: |
splattering
(encz) | splattering, n: |
unflattering
(encz) | unflattering, |
Beflatter
(gcide) | Beflatter \Be*flat"ter\, v. t.
To flatter excessively.
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Blatter
(gcide) | Blatter \Blat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blattered.] [L.
blaterare to babble: cf. F. blat['e]rer to bleat.]
To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to
patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." --Jeffrey.
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They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, .
. . so that they had place and time to belie me
shamefully. --Latimer.
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Blatteration
(gcide) | Blatteration \Blat`ter*a"tion\, n. [L. blateratio a babbling.]
Blattering.
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Blattered
(gcide) | Blatter \Blat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blattered.] [L.
blaterare to babble: cf. F. blat['e]rer to bleat.]
To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to
patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." --Jeffrey.
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They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, .
. . so that they had place and time to belie me
shamefully. --Latimer.
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Blatterer
(gcide) | Blatterer \Blat"ter*er\, n.
One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.
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Blattering
(gcide) | Blattering \Blat"ter*ing\, n.
Senseless babble or boasting.
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Blatteroon
(gcide) | Blatteroon \Blat`ter*oon"\, n. [L. blatero, -onis.]
A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such
blatteroons." --Howell.
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Clatter
(gcide) | Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clattered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Clattering.] [AS. cla?rung a rattle, akin to D.
klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack.]
1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together;
to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
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Clattering loud with iron clank. --Longfellow.
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2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
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I see thou dost but clatter. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. t.
To make a rattling noise with.
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You clatter still your brazen kettle. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Clatter \Clat"ter\, n.
1. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard
bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of
abrupt sounds.
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The goose let fall a golden egg
With cackle and with clatter. --Tennyson.
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2. Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made
such a clatter in story." --Barrow.
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3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy
clatter." --Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ).
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Throw by your clatter
And handle the matter. --B. Jonson
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Clattered
(gcide) | Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clattered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Clattering.] [AS. cla?rung a rattle, akin to D.
klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack.]
1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together;
to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
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Clattering loud with iron clank. --Longfellow.
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2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
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I see thou dost but clatter. --Spenser.
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Clatterer
(gcide) | Clatterer \Clat"ter*er\, n.
One who clatters.
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Clattering
(gcide) | Clatter \Clat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clattered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Clattering.] [AS. cla?rung a rattle, akin to D.
klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack.]
1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together;
to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
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Clattering loud with iron clank. --Longfellow.
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2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
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I see thou dost but clatter. --Spenser.
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Clatteringly
(gcide) | Clatteringly \Clat"ter*ing*ly\, adv.
With clattering.
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Flatter
(gcide) | Flat \Flat\ (fl[a^]t), a. [Compar. Flatter (fl[a^]t"r[~e]r);
superl. Flattest (fl[a^]t"t[e^]st).] [Akin to Icel. flatr,
Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G.
fl["o]tz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so,
without prominences or depressions; level without
inclination; plane.
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Though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. --Milton.
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2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground;
level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat
on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
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What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! --Milton.
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I feel . . . my hopes all flat. --Milton.
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3. (Fine Arts) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without
points of prominence and striking interest.
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A large part of the work is, to me, very flat.
--Coleridge.
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4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink
flat to the taste.
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5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit;
monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
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How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world. --Shak.
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6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings;
depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
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7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive;
downright.
Syn: flat-out.
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Flat burglary as ever was committed. --Shak.
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A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat.
--Marston.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals,
minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A
flat.
(b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
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9. (Phonetics) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the
sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a
nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
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10. (Golf) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft;
-- said of a club.
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11. (Gram.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a
noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb,
without the addition of a formative suffix, or an
infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in
run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -["e], the
loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives.
Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful,
true, are now archaic.
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12. (Hort.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain
fruits.
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Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of
ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots
and lines made with a punching tool. --Knight.
Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of
rectangular section. See File.
Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a
flat, thin head, larger than a tack. --Knight.
Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar
spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods,
for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance.
--Raymond.
Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting;
gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are
made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a
wide, flat band. --Knight.
Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- {Flat
tint} (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the
intended effect; as, his speech fell flat.
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Of all who fell by saber or by shot,
Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. --Lord
Erskine.
[1913 Webster]Flatter \Flat"ter\, v. i.
To use flattery or insincere praise.
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If it may stand him more in stead to lie,
Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
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2. (Metal Working)
(a) A flat-faced fulling hammer.
(b) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for
drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
[1913 Webster]Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
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Flattered
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
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Flatterer
(gcide) | Flatterer \Flat"ter*er\, n.
One who flatters.
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The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest
tyrants. --Addison.
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Flatteries
(gcide) | Flattery \Flat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Flatteries. [OE. flaterie, OF.
flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of
uncertain origin. See Flatter, v. t.]
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by
artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false,
insincere, or excessive praise.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
--Rambler.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
--Burke.
Syn: Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation.
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Flattering
(gcide) | Flatter \Flat"ter\ (fl[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Flattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flattering.] [OE. flateren,
cf. OD. flatteren; akin to G. flattern to flutter, Icel.
fla[eth]ra to fawn, flatter: cf. F. flatter. Cf. Flitter,
Flutter, Flattery.]
1. To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or
attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by
artful and interested commendation or attentions; to
blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
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When I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. --Shak.
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A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net
for his feet. --Prov. xxix.
5.
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Others he flattered by asking their advice.
--Prescott.
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2. To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but
sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
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3. To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of;
as, his portrait flatters him.
[1913 Webster]Flattering \Flat"ter*ing\, a.
That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a
flattering speech.
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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. --Shak.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care,
To draw men as they ought be, not as they are.
--Goldsmith.
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Flatteringly
(gcide) | Flatteringly \Flat"ter*ing*ly\, adv.
With flattery.
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Flattery
(gcide) | Flattery \Flat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Flatteries. [OE. flaterie, OF.
flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of
uncertain origin. See Flatter, v. t.]
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by
artful commendation or compliments; adulation; false,
insincere, or excessive praise.
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
--Rambler.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
--Burke.
Syn: Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation.
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Latter
(gcide) | Late \Late\ (l[=a]t), a. [Compar. Later (l[=a]t"[~e]r), or
latter (l[a^]t"t[~e]r); superl. Latest (l[=a]t"[e^]st) or
Last (l[.a]st).] [OE. lat slow, slack, AS. l[ae]t; akin to
OS. lat, D. laat late, G. lass weary, lazy, slack, Icel.
latr, Sw. lat, Dan. lad, Goth. lats, and to E. let, v. See
Let to permit, and cf. Alas, Lassitude.]
1. Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or
proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a
late spring.
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2. Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of
the day; a late period of life.
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3. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not
now; recently deceased, departed, or gone out of office;
as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.
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4. Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the
late rains; we have received late intelligence.
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5. Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night;
as, late revels; a late watcher.
[1913 Webster]Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[ae]tter, compar. of lat late.
See Late, and cf. Later.]
1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something
else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter
rain.
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2. Of two things, the one mentioned second.
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The difference between reason and revelation, and in
what sense the latter is superior. --I. Watts.
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3. Recent; modern.
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Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages,
whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke.
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4. Last; latest; final. [R.] "My latter gasp." --Shak.
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Latter harvest, the last part of the harvest.
Latter spring, the last part of the spring of the year.
--Shak.
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Latter harvest
(gcide) | Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[ae]tter, compar. of lat late.
See Late, and cf. Later.]
1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something
else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter
rain.
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2. Of two things, the one mentioned second.
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The difference between reason and revelation, and in
what sense the latter is superior. --I. Watts.
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3. Recent; modern.
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Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages,
whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke.
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4. Last; latest; final. [R.] "My latter gasp." --Shak.
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Latter harvest, the last part of the harvest.
Latter spring, the last part of the spring of the year.
--Shak.
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Latter spring
(gcide) | Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[ae]tter, compar. of lat late.
See Late, and cf. Later.]
1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something
else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter
rain.
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2. Of two things, the one mentioned second.
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The difference between reason and revelation, and in
what sense the latter is superior. --I. Watts.
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3. Recent; modern.
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Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages,
whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke.
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4. Last; latest; final. [R.] "My latter gasp." --Shak.
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Latter harvest, the last part of the harvest.
Latter spring, the last part of the spring of the year.
--Shak.
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Latterday
(gcide) | Latterday \Lat"ter*day`\, a.
Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.
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Latter-day saint
(gcide) | Latter-day saint \Lat"ter-day` saint"\n.
A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
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Latterkin
(gcide) | Latterkin \Lat"ter*kin\, n.
A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
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Latterly
(gcide) | Latterly \Lat"ter*ly\, adv.
Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from
a former, period.
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Latterly Milton was short and thick. --Richardson.
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Lattermath
(gcide) | Lattermath \Lat"ter*math\, n. [Cf. Aftermath.]
The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.
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Outflatter
(gcide) | Outflatter \Out*flat"ter\, v. t.
To exceed in flattering.
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