Word Meanings - ASSENTATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.

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• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• FLATTERING
  That flatters ; as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.
• OBSEQUIOUS
  Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. "To do obsequious sorrow." Shak. Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding. (more info) obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to
• FLATTERER
  One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• OUTFLATTER
  To exceed in flattering.