GLOZEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡləʊz/
• 韻: -əʊz
• Homophone: glows

名詞

gloze (複数形 glozes)

1. A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha” in Men and Women, stanza 24,^[1]

     So we o’ershroud stars and roses,

     Cherub and trophy and garland.

     Nothings grow something which quietly closes

     Heaven’s earnest eye,—not a glimpse of the far land

     Gets through our comments and glozes.

   • 1903, Cuthbert Atchley, The Parish Clerk, and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle, Alcuin Club Tracts IV, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 15,^[2]

     The state of practice in the first half of the fifteenth century may be gathered from the gloze of Nicholas de Tudeschis, called Panormitan, on the text Ut quisque which we have quoted above.

   • 1912, Ezra Pound, Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti, London: Stephen Swift & Co., Introduction, p. 3,^[3]

     The relation of certain words in the original to the practice of my translation may require gloze.

2. Flattery.
   • 1803, Jerome Alley, The Judge; or, An Estimate of the Importance of the Judicial Character, London: Vernor & Hood, Canto III, p. 97,^[4]

     […] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n,

     Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure,

     And courtly glozes vile.

   • 1897, J. G. Holland, The Mistress of the Manse, A Poem, New York: Scribner, “Love’s Philosophies,” III, p. 93,^[5]

     No tender word or dainty gloze

     Could give him pleasure half so fine

     As that which tingled to her blows.

3. (False) appearance.
   • 1585, John Aylmer, “A necessarie and godly prayer appoynted by the right reverend Father in God John, Bishop of London to be used throughout all his Dioces upon Sondayes and Frydayes, for the turning away of Gods Wrath,” in Two Forms of Prayer of the Time of Queen Elizabeth, Cambridge University Press, 1876, p. 12,^[6]

     We have flattered thee, O Lord, with our tongues, and dissembled in our double hearts like the Israelites, whom thou hast fearfully punished in the sight of all the world, and saluted thee long with Judas kiss; to wit, with a vizard and show of religion, with the gloze of outward profession, drawing near thee with our lips, but our hearts far from thee […]

   • 1859, Leander Clark, “Sonnet No. 6” in Kenridge Hall, and Other Poems, Washington: Franklin Philp, p. 72,^[7]

     Wear not the mask of Love upon thy face,

     For fear my eye discern; ’twere better veil

     The sweet serenity Love’s eye would trace,

     Than with its gloze to make his visage stale.

   • 1922, Don Marquis, “Savage Portraits, M’Corkle” in Poems and Portraits, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., p. 101,^[8]

     Himself, he hints, is ever in the throes

     Of some grim struggle for his Self’s control.

     M’Corkle lies. He never fought. Speech is his rôle.

     He’s putty, and his holiness all gloze.

4. A specious show, a deceit.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, scene iv]:

     Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by:
     Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?

動詞

gloze (三人称単数 現在形 glozes, 現在分詞 glozing, 過去形および過去分詞形 glozed)

1. (literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act I, scene 1]:

     Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
     But I will gloze with him.

   • 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 279:

     Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / [...] / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male […]

2. To use flattering language.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (please specify the page):

     […] looke to see the throne where you should sit,
     To floate in bloud, and at thy wanton head,
     The glozing head of thy base minion throwne.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 549-551:

     So gloz’d the Tempter, and his Proem tun’d;
     Into the Heart of Eve his words made way,