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LAUD, f. [laus, Lat,] Praife; honour paid; celebra¬ 
tion : 
Doubtlefs, O gueft, great laud and praife were mine, 
Reply’d the fwain, for fpotlefs faith divine; 
If, after focial rites, and gifts bellow'd, 
I ftain’d my hofpitabie hearth with blood. Pope. 
That part of divine worlhip which confifts in praife.— 
We have certain hymns and fervices, which we fay daily, 
of laud and thanks to God for his marvellous works. Ba¬ 
con. —In the book of Pl'alms, the lauds make up a very 
great part of it. Government of the Tongue. 
The lauds <J.audi fpirituali, Ital.) are the moll ancient 
melodies that can be found in Italy, fet to Italian words. 
They are compofitions in praife of God, the Virgin Mary, 
or the faints and martyrs. They referable hymns as to 
the fubjedf, but not the character and verification: hymns 
having been originally conftrufted on Greek and Roman 
models ; but the laudi, or fpiritual fongs, are entirely of 
Italian invention. A fociety for the performance of thefe 
religious poems was inlfituted at Florence fo early as the 
year 1310, the members of which were called laudef , and 
laudifti. In the fifteenth century this fpecies of facred 
poetry was very much efteemed and pra&ifed, as is mani- 
feft by the various collections that were made of them, one 
of which was printed in 1485. They were at firft little 
auore than chants, and without bafe. However, accord¬ 
ing to the commentary on Boccaccio, by Sanfovino, pub- 
lilhed at Venice in 1546, they were afterwards fung in 
parts. Dr. Burney found this company Hill fubfifting in 
the year 1770 and often heard them fing their hymns, 
through the llreets, in three parts, and like wife in their 
church accompanied by an organ. See the article Mu¬ 
sic. 
To LAUD, v. a. \laudo, Lat.] To praife ; to celebrate. 
—O thou almighty and eternal Creator, having confidered 
the heavens the work of thy fingers, the moon and the 
itars wdiich thou hall ordained, with all the company of 
heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name. Bentley. 
LAU'DA, a town of Wurzburg, on the Tauber: 
twenty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Wurzburg, and 
twenty-five fouth-fouth-eafl of Heilbron. 
LAU'DA. See Laudic. 
LAUD'ABLE, adj. Praife-worthy ; commendable.— 
Affectation endeavours to correct natural defeats, and has 
always the laudable aim of pleafing, though it always mifles 
it. Locke. 
I’m in this earthly world, where to do harm 
Is often laudable ; but to do good, fometime 
Accounted dang’rous folly. Shakefpeare's Mackbetk. 
Healthy ; falubrious.—Good blood, and a due projectile 
motion or circulation, are neceffary to convert the aliment 
into laudable animal juices. Arbuthnot. 
LAUD'ABLENESS, /. Praife-worthinefs. 
LAUD'ABLY, adv. In a manner deferving praife.— 
Obfolete words may be laudably revived, when either they 
are founding or fignificant. Dryden. 
LAUDA'MIA, a daughter of Alexander king of Epirus 
and Olympias daughter of Pyrrhus, killed in a temple of 
Diana, by the enraged populace. JuJUn, 28, c. 3.—The 
■wife of Protefilaus. See Laodamia. 
LAUDAMNAT', a town of Bengal: twelve miles 
foilth of Nattore. 
LAU DANUM, /. A name given by chemifts to cer¬ 
tain preparations, chiefly extraft or tincture of opium, on 
account of their excellent qualities; the word being de¬ 
rived from laudare, Lat. to praife. See Pap aver. 
LAUDA'TIO,yi [Latin.] In a legal fenfe, was ancient¬ 
ly the teltimony delivered in court of the accufed perfon’s 
good behaviour and integrity of life. It refembled the cuf- 
tom, which prevails in our trials, of calling perfons to fpeak 
to the character of the prifoner. The leak number of the 
laudatores among the Romans was ten. 
LAUD'ATIVE, adj. Panegyrical. 
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LAUD'ATIVE, f. [from the adj.] Panegyric.—Fune¬ 
ral laudatives, and monuments for thofe that died in the 
wars. Bacon. 
LAUD'ATORY, adj. Praifing, full of praife; panegy¬ 
rical. 
LAUDA'VA, a town of Pruflia, in the palatinate of 
Culm : twenty miles north-eaft of Thorn. 
LAU'DER, a town of Scotland, in the county of Ber¬ 
wick, on the Leader; and a royal burgh, united with 
Dunbar, North-Berwick, Haddington, and Jedburgh, to 
return one member to parliament. In the reign of James 
III. the Scotch nobility, enraged at the condudl of the 
minifters, one of whom, from a mafon, had been created 
earl of Mar, being fummoned by the king to meet at 
Lauder, to confult on the means of repelling an invafion, 
before they proceeded to bufinefs, fcized the earl of Mar 
and his alTociates, and hung them over a bridge in fight 
of the king and his army. Near this town is Lauder Caf- 
tle, originally built as a t’ortrefs by Edward Longflianks, 
who had overrun that part of Scotland : twenty-four 
miles weft of Berwick, and twenty-fix fouth-eaft of Edin¬ 
burgh. Lat. 55. 45. N. Ion. 2. 48. W. 
LAU'DER, or Leader, a river of Scotland, which 
rrfes in the north part of Berwickfliire, and after a fouth- 
erly courfe runs into the Tweed near Melrofe. The 
ditlricf through which it pafles is called Lauderdale. 
LAU'DER (William), a native of Scotland, was edu¬ 
cated at the univerfity of Edinburgh, where he finiflied 
his ftudies with great reputation, and acquired a conlider- 
able knowledge of the Latin tongue. On May 22, 1734, 
he received a teftimonial from the heads of the univerfity, 
certifying that he was a fit perfon to teach in any lchool 
or college whatever. In 1739 he publiflied at Edinburgh 
an edition of Johnfton’s Pfalms. In 1742, he was recom¬ 
mended by Mr. Patrick Cumming and Mr. Colin Mac- 
laurin, profeftors of church-hiftory and mathematics, to 
the mafterlhip of the grammar-fchool at Dundee, then va¬ 
cant. Whether he fucceeded in his application or not, is 
uncertain ; but a few years afterwards we find him in 
London, contriving to ruin the reputation of Milton ; an 
attempt which ended in the dellruflion of his own. This 
extraordinary attempt was no fudden effort. He had brooded 
over it for many years; and to this hour it is uncertain 
what his principal motive was, unlefs it were a vain no¬ 
tion of his fuperiority, in being able, by whatever means, 
to deceive mankind. To effeft this, he produced certain 
paflages from Grotius, Mafenius, and others, which had 
a faint refemblance to fome parts of the Faradife Loft. 
In thefe he interpolated fome fragments of Hog’s Latin 
tranflation of. that poem, alleging that the mafs thus fa¬ 
bricated was the archetype from which Milton copied. 
Thefe fabrications he publifhed from time to time in the 
Gentleman’s Magazine; and, exulting in his fancied fuc- 
cefs, he in 1750 ventured to collect them into a pamphlet, 
entitled “An Effay on Milton’s Ufe and Imitation of the 
Moderns in his Paradife Loft.” To this pamphlet Dr. 
Jolmfon wrote a Preface, in full perfualion of Lauder’s 
honefty, and a Poftfcript recommending, in the moll per- 
fuafive terms, a fubfcription for the relief of a grand¬ 
daughter of Milton, of whom he thus fpeaks : “It is yet 
in the power of a great people to reward the poet whofe 
name they boaft, and from their alliance to whofe genius 
they claim fome kind of fuperiority to every other nation 
of the earth ; that poet, whofe works may poflibly be read 
when every other monument of Britifh greatnefs fliall be 
obliterated; to reward him, not with pictures or with me¬ 
dals, which, if he fees, he fees with contempt, but with 
tokens of gratitude, which he, perhaps, may even now 
confider as not unworthy the regard of an immortal Ipi- 
rit.” Surely this is inconfiftent with “ enmity towards 
Milton,” which fir John Hawkins' imputes to Johnfon 
upon this occafion ; adding, “ I could all along obferve 
that Johnfon feemed to approve not only of the defign, 
but of the argument; and feemed to exult in a perfua- 
fion, that the reputation of Milton was likely to luffer by 
