† ˈglozer Obs.
Forms: 4 glosour, 4–5 glosar(e, 4–7 gloser, (6 glosier), 7– glozer.
[f. gloze v.1 + -er1; after OF. gloseor.]
1. One who writes glosses; a commentator.
| 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 284 Falce gloseris maken goddis lawe derk. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 199/2 Glosare of textys, glosator. 1565 Jewel Def. Apol. (1567) 226 But that these woordes..touche..onely the Priestes and the Ministers, the very Gloser [ed. 1611 glosser] him selfe was neuer..so impudent, so to saie. 15.. Fulke in Marbeck Bk. of Notes (1581) 55 These words (saith the Romish gloser) are the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall power. |
2. A flatterer, sycophant.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 105 Simplist glosars, & warst willid traytoris. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3088 A gloser also kepethe his silence Often, where he his lorde seethe hym mystake. 1456 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 235 Now gloserys fulle gayly they go. 1575 Gammer Gurton iv. 1 Yet must I talke so sage and smothe, as though I were a glosier [rime-wd. loser]. 1604 Middleton Father Hubbards T. Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 61 Else would not glosers oil the son, Who, while his father liv'd, his acts did hate. 1659 Hammond On Ps. cxxxix. 14 God would at length discover and bring out such glozers. 1783 Ainsworth's Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, A glozer, adulator. |