Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To applaud.
  • noun Claim to applause; plaudit; applause.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To applaud.

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  • verb obsolete To applaud.

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Examples

  • Not a word, I beseech you, on that side of the question She will think, if you ap-plaud her, that she has consented to too short a term You must not make her uneasy with herself.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • She could admire his innate intelligence, she could ap - plaud his decision to keep his distance from the family busi - ness that had already ensnared Caesare, but she recognized the danger of this beast inside him and it made her tremble.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Despite year-to-year consistency, we ap - plaud our purchasing professional readership for a sense of dynamics among the practices they introduce each year.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Batjaa_sh 2009

  • He W | 8 the - first that opened a new road to ambition* He intrigued for fame, and filled the benches with an audience suborned to ap - plaud his declamations.

    The Works of Cornelius Tacitus Cornelius Tacitus , Arthur Murphy 1812

  • In the poem before us, we fee nothing to ap - plaud befides the goodnefs of the author's intentions.

    The Monthly Review 1795

  • When this is confidered, with the im - portance of the fubjeck, and the length of fome of the pieces, the candid Reader will fee much to ap - plaud, and little to condemn. —

    Derriana: A Collection of Papers Relative to the Siege of Derry, and Illustrative of the ... G. Douglas 1794

  • a gree ment: a bargain. al mond: a nut. am ber: of the color of amber-yellow. ap plaud ed: praised. ar bu tus: a trailing plant with small pinkish-white blossoms.

    The Child's World Third Reader Sarah Withers Hetty Browne

  • a very offenfive and a very dangerous vi - fiton And here, by the bye, I cannot but ap - plaud the honefl fagacity of that honours - able fociety, the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, who have declared eternal war with all great men, eftecming them dange and victual a fieet, to defray the expence T 4 of

    The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To which are ... 1790

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