PRAISE Copy link • PRAISE 1. s. laus (subjectively and objectively, the thing): laudatio (a panegyric, subjunctively and objectively, the action or the thing): praedicatio (an extolling loudly or publicly). To gain praise, laudem consequi, assequi; laudem sibi parere, comparare; (by anything) laudem habere de or ex re: to have paise, laudem habere; in laude esse; laudari: to have great paise, laudibus efferri; laude celebrari: to have general paise, ab omnibus laudari: to give paise to anyone, alicui laudem tribuere; alicui laudem or aliquem laude impertire (Vid: Zumpt, § 418): aliquem laude afficere: to confer distinguished paise on anyone, aliquem laudibus ornare, illustrare, (of several) celebrare; aliquem eximia laude ornare, decorare: to strive or endeavor after paise, laudem quaerere, petere: laudis studio trahi: to reckon as a paise to anyone, alicui aliquid laudi ducere or dare; aliquid in laude ponere: to be to the paise of anyone, alicui laudi esse: to diminish, detract from the paise of anyone, laudem alicujus imminuere, obterere, verbis extenuare: to deprive any one of due paise, aliquem debita laude fraudare; laudem alicui destinatam praeripere (by appropriating it to one’s self): paise be to God! *Deo laudes et grates agantur: *sit laus Deo. 2. v. laudare (general term): laudem alicui tribuere: laudem alicui impertire or laude aliquem impertire (Vid: Zumpt, § 418): laude aliquem afficere (to give praise): collaudare (to paise greatly, together with others): dilaudare (to paise immoderately): praedicare aliquem or de aliquo (to extol, paise loudly and publicly). To paise one’s self, se ipsum laudare; de se ipsum praedicare: to paise anyone to his face, aliquem coram in os laudare (Ter., Ad., 2, 4, 5): to paise one very much, valde, vehementer laudare; laudibus ornare, illustrare, efferre; laudibus celebrare (of several): collaudare, dilaudare (Vid: above): plena, manu alicujus laudes in astra tollere; pleniore ore or utroque pollice laudare; eximia laude ornare, decorare; divinis laudibus exornare; miris laudibus praedicare: to paise excessively, nimis laudare; in majus extollere: to paise anything more than it deserves, supra meritum aliquid circumferre praedicatione: not to be able to paise anyone enough, aliquem non satis pro dignitate laudare posse: not to like to hear other men praised, alienas laudes parum acquis auribus accipere.