gloomy 
It happened about this time that public matters looked 
very gloomy. Addison, A Friend of Mankind. 
Chronic ailments make gloomy a life most favourably 
circumstanced. //. Spencer, Data of Ethics, 71. 
= Syn 1 Dim, dusky, cloudy, cheerless, lowering. Sec 
darkness. 2. Morose, Splenetic, etc. (see sullen); sad, 
melancholy downcast, depressed, disheartened, dispirit- 
ed, despondent, down-hearted ; disheartening, dispirit- 
ing, threatening, doleful. 
glop (glop), v. i. ; pret. and pp. gloppe(l,vyT. 
glopping. [Var. of glope.] To stare. Halli- 
well. [Prov. Eng.] 
glopet, ^- [ME- glopen = OFries. glupa 
MD. gloepen, glupen, gluypen, watch, he in 
wait for, D. gluipen, sneak, = LG. glupen, look 
askance at ; cf. gloppen] To gaze in alarm ; be 
terrified. 
The god man glyfte with that glam & gloped for noyse. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. MorrisX *M9- 
glopet, [ME. ; < glope, v.] Astonishment; 
fear. 
O, my hart is rysand in a glope. 
For this nobylle tythand thou shalle have a droppe. 
Toumeley Mysteries, p. 146. 
glopnet, v- Same as gloppen. 
glopnealyt, adv. [ME.. < glopmd, pp. of glop- 
nen (see gloppcn), + -ly*] In fear or astonish- 
ment. 
Ful erly those aungeleg this hathel thay ruthen, 
& glopnedly on Godej halue gart hym vpryse. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 896. 
gloppen (glop'n), v. [< ME. glopnen, < Icel. 
gliipna, look downcast; a secondary form of 
the verb represented by glope, v.] I. intrans. 
To be in fear ; gaze in alarm or astonishment; 
look downcast. [Prov. Eng.] 
Thane glopnede the glotone and glorede un-faire . . . 
He gapede. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1074. 
II. trans. To terrify; astonish; surprise. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
Thowe wenys to glopyne me with thy gret wordez ! 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L 2580. 
gloret (glor), v. i. [Also in var. (dial.) form 
glow, glower, q. v. ; < ME. gloren, a parallel form 
ioglaren: see glared] To glare; glower. 
Why glare thyn eyes in thy heade? Why waggest thou 
thy heed, as though thou were very angry? 
Palsgrave, Acolastus. (Halhwell.) 
Sometimes it hap't, a greedy gull 
Would get his gullet cram'd so full 
As t' make him glare and gasp for wind. 
T. Ward, England's Reformation, ii. 
gloria (glo'ri-a), n. [L., glory : see glory.] 1. 
In liturgies, tlie great doxology (Gloria in Ex- 
celsis) or the lesser doxology (Gloria Patri). 
See below. 
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< gloriari, boast, glory: see glory, t>.] A state 
or the act of glorying: a sense of triumph; 
vainglory. 
Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is 
the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or 
conception of our own power above the power of him that 
contendeth with us. Hobbes, Human Nature, ix. 1. 
gloriedt (glo'rid), a. [< glory + -erf 2 .] Held 
in glory or honor ; honored. 
If old respect, 
As I suppose, towards your once gloried friend, 
My son, now captive, hither hath inform'd 
Your younger feet, ... say if he be here. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 334. 
glorification (glo"ri-fi-ka'shon), n. [= F. glo- 
rification = Sp. glorification = Pg. glorificaqSo 
= It. glorificazione, < LL. glorifitatio(n-), < glo- 
rificare. glorify: see glorify.] 1. The act of 
glorifying, or of ascribing glory and honor to 
a person or thing. 
Not a few others, it must be owned, indulged in the 
high-flown ijlnrificatian of the reign of peace to come be- 
cause the Exhibition was the special enterprise of the 
Prince Consort, and they had a natural aptitude for the 
production of courtly strains. 
J. McCarthy, Hist. Own Times, xxi. 
glory 
whorled leaves terminating in tendrils by which 
they climb, and with large and beautiful red or 
yellow flowers. 
There are three 
species, of trop- 
ical Asia and 
Africa, cultivat- 
ed in green- 
houses. 
gloriosert (gl- 
ri-6'ser),. [Ir- 
reg. as glorio- 
so + -er'.] A 
boaster. 
Emptie vessells 
haue the highest 
sounds hollowe rockes the loudest ecchoes, and prat- 
tling gloriasers the smallest performance of courage. 
Greene, Menaphon, p. 82. 
gloriosot (gl6-ri-d'so), . [It.: see glorious] 
A boaster ; a glorioser. Davies. 
Some wise men thought his Holinesse did forfeit a par- 
cel of his infallibility in giving credit to such a Glorioso, 
vaunting that with three thousand Souldiers he would 
beat all the English out of * 
Flower of Gloriosa suferba. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 247. 
2. An ascription of glory; a formula of glori- 
fying; specifically, a gloria or doxology. 
In their tabernacle and in the temple, which wi 
glorious (glo'ri-us), a. [< ME. glorious, glorius, 
' < OF. glorias, glorious, glorieus, F. glorieux = 
Pr. glorias = Sp. Pg. It. glorioso, < L. gloriosm, 
full of glory, famous, renowned, full of boast- 
and praises and glorijicatwiui wi v*w. 
Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, ii. 2. 
The glorification in the close was in common, to Father, 
Son, and Holy Ghost. Waterland, Works, V. 381. 
3. The state of being glorified or raised to 
glory; exaltation to honor and dignity. 
By contynuel ascendynge and descendynge, by the which 
it is sublymed to so myche hisnes of glorificacioun, it 
schal come that it schal be a medicyn incorruptible al- 
moost as heuene aboue. 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 4. 
We all look for the glorification, not only of our souls, 
but bodies, in the life to come. 
Bp. AUerbury, Sermons, II. xix. 
4. A celebration or jubilation: as, to hold a 
glorification over a victory. [Colloq.] 
glorifier (glo'ri-fi-er), n. One who glorifies, 
extols, or ascribes glory and honor to a person 
or thing. 
That too [the gymnasium], has been tested thoroughly, 
and even the most enthusiastic of its early glori/iers are 
now ready to admit that it has been found wanting. 
W. Matthews, Getting on in the World, p. 344. 
glorify, (glo;ri-fi) v r a ^ret._an^p^ o ^|^. 
-, . 
ppr. glorifying. [< ME. 
bowing at the Glorias, or kneeling with my face hid in my 
hands. W. H. Mattock, New Republic, Iv. 2. 
2. A musical setting of one of these doxolo- 
gi es . 3. In general, a doxology or ascription 
of praise. 4. In eccles. art, a glory: often in- 
correctly used for halo or aureole Gloria In Ex- 
celsla, the hymn or chant beginning in Latin with the 
words Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Glory in the highest to God), 
and in the English version with Glory be to God on high. 
The first two clauses are given in Luke ii. 14, as sung by 
angels ; and both this shorter form, as sung in churches 
in early times and still in use in some Oriental offices, 
and the enlarged form are therefore known as the angelic 
hymn. In some Eastern liturgies it stands at the begin- 
ning of the encharistic office. In Western rites it is found 
at the beginning of mass, after the introit and kyrie, and 
before the collect, as in the Roman missal, and also in the 
Use of Sarum and in the Anglican Prayer-Book of 1549. In 
revisions of the Anglican Prayer-Book since 1552 it has 
stood at the end of the Communion Office, after commu- 
nion and a prayer of thanksgiving. In the American Prayer- 
Book it is also an alternate to the Gloria Patri after the 
last psalm at Morning and Evening Prayer. In the Greek 
Church it is used after the psalms called lauds (nli-oi) 
toward the end of the matin service, and at complin 
(airoteuri'oi') after Psalm cxlii. Also called, especially in 
the Eastern Church, the great doxology. Gloria, Patri, 
the short hymn, " Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 
and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is 
now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." (In 
the Latin form, " Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. 
Sicut erat in principle, et nunc, et semper, et in saacula 
steculornm. Amen. ) This ascription has been used 
since very early times in both the Eastern and Western 
churches. Also called the lesser doxology. Gloria, Tibi, 
the brief doxology in Latin," Gloria tibi, Domine "; in the 
English version, "Glory beto thee.OLord" saidafterthe 
announcement of the liturgical gospel in Roman Catholic 
and Anglican churches. In the Eastern Church the form 
is, "Glory be to thee, O Lord, glory to thee "(Sofa <roi, Kii- 
pie, 66fa croi), and this is repeated after the gospel. In the 
East the Gloria Tibi is as old as the fifth century or older ; 
in the West it is not mentioned till later. 
gloriablet (glo'ri-a-bl), a. [< glory + -able] 
Glorious, or to be gloried in. 
Job, of all we read, was the most confident of his own 
integrity, which, indeed, was rare an<~ 
acterized by attributes, qualities, or achieve- 
ments that are worthy of or receive glory; of 
exalted excellence or splendor; illustrious; re- 
splendent. 
Yet will I not this Work of mine giue o're. 
The Labour's great ; my Courage yet is more ; . . . 
Ther's nothing Glorious but is hard to get. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 
A glorious Church is like a Magnificent Feast. 
Selden, Table-Talk, p. 34. 
Glorious my lover was unto my sight, 
Most beautiful. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 331. 
2|. Full of boasting; boastful; vainglorious; 
haughty; ostentatious. 
Glorious gifts and foundations are like sacrifices with- 
out salt, and but the painted sepulchres of alms. 
Bacon, Riches (ed. 1887). 
Come, y' are a glorious ruffian, and run proud 
Of the King's headlong graces. 
Chapman, Bussy d Ambois, 111. 1. 
He brings with him . . . the name of a soldier ; which 
how well and how soon he hath earned, would in me seem 
glorwus to rehearse. 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, L 1. 
or dis- 
Pg. glorifiear = It. glorificare, < LL. glorificare, 
glorify, < glorificus, full of glory, < L. gloria, 
glory, + facere, make.] I. trans. 1. To give 
or ascribe glory or honor to ; magnify and exalt 
with praises. 
Right so shal youre light lighten bifore men, that they 
may seen youre goode werkes and glorifte youre fader that 
is in hevene. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
And when ye people saw it they maruail ed & glorified 
God. whiche had given such power to men. 
Bible of 1551, Mat. Ix. 8. 
You rid, you spurr'd him, 
And glorified your wits, the more ye wrong'd him. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, v. 2. 
Most miserable 
Is the desire that's glorious. 
Shak., Cymbeline, L 7. 
I am not watchful to do ill, 
Nor glorious to pursue it still. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 2. 
4. Recklessly jolly ; hilarious ; elated : gener- 
ally applied to a tipsy person. [Colloq.] 
Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, 
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
= Syn. 1. Preeminent, distinguished, famous, magnificent, 
grand, splendid, radiant, brilliant. 
L; lit 1 1(1, >[IU HUIM. l.UMiiin, vi. 
gloriously (glo'ri-us-li), adv. [< ME. glorious- 
2. To make glorious; exalt to a state of glory. ^ gioryousliclie ; < glorious + -ly 2 .] In a glori- 
ous or illustrious manner, (a) With great renown, 
dignity, or magnificence ; illustriously ; splendidly. 
And al the puple joyede in alle thingis that weren glo- 
riously don of him. Wyclif, Luke xiii. 17 (Oxf.). 
The glose [gloss] gloryousliche was wryte wyth a gylt 
penne. Piers Plowman (C), xx. 15. 
The house is most magnificently built without, nor less 
gloriously furnish'd within. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 17, 1644. 
(6t) Boastfully ; vauntingly ; ostentatiously. 
By this hand, I protest to you, signior, I speak it not 
gloriously, nor out of affectation. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1. 
(e) Hilariously ; with reckless jollity. 
Drink, and be mad then ; 'tis your country bids ! 
Gloriously drunk obey th' important call ! 
Cowper, Task, iv. 510. 
gloriousness (glo'ri-us-nes), n. [< ME. glori- 
ousnesse; < glorious + -mss.] The state or qual- 
ity of being glorious. 
Among them also that are good, euerie^pne, as^he hath 
gloriationt (glo-ri-a'shon), n. [= OF. gloriation, 
= It glorli^one, < L. gloriatio(n-), a boasting, 
The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus. 
Acts iii. 13. 
And now O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self 
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 
John xvii. 5. 
Nothing 
More glorif.es the noble and the valiant 
Than to despise contempt. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, iii. 2. 
3. To raise to a higher quality, condition, or 
consideration; make finer; improve; embel- 
lish; refine. 
To glorify a Wall 
With tapestry seats is womanish, say I. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 54. 
Burns, Wordsworth, Whittier, . . . have known how to 
glorify common life andvery-day people with the charm 
of romance. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 187. 
Il.t intrans. To vaunt; boast; exult. 
Of this mayst thou glorifie. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 186. 
gloriole (glo'ri-61), . [= F. gloriole, < L. glo- 
riola, dim. of gloria, glory : see glory. For the 
sense, cf. aureole] A glory. 
Sappho, with that gloriole 
Of ebon hair on calmed brows. 
Mrs. Browning, Vision of Poets. 
Gloriosa (glo-ri-6'sa), n. [NL., fern, of L. glori- 
osus, glorious : see glorious] A genus of tuber- 
ous-rooted liliaceous plants, with opposite or 
in this vsed himselfe, so shal he eicell other in the glori- 
ousnes of his new bodye. J. UdaU, On 1 Cor. xv. 
glory (glo'ri), n. ; pi. glories (-riz). [< ME. glory, 
glorie = D. glorie = G. Dan. glorie = Sw. gloria, 
glory, halo, < OF. glorie, later gloire, F. gloire 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. It. gloria, < L. gloria, glory, fame, 
renown, praise, honor, pride, vaunting, boast- 
ing, prob. orig. *cloria, "closia, nearly = Gr. KMOC 
