Obs. or arch. [ad. L. collaudātiōn-em, f. collaudāre: see prec.]
1. Warm praise, high commendation.
1623. Cockeram, II. Praise … Enchomion, Collaudation.
1627–77. Feltham, Resolves, II. lxxv. 320. The Rhetorical Collaudations, with the Honourable Epithets given to their persons.
1832. Syd. Smith, in Mem. & Lett. (1855), II. No. 332. I could not help writing a letter of congratulation and collaudation to Morier, the author.
1874. Bp. C. Wordsworth, Perversions to Rome, 15. Pharisaic condemnation of others and … self-complacent collaudations of ourselves.
2. ? A praising along with others.
1677. Govt. Venice, 113. The Collaudation and Confirmation of the People was nothing but an outward approbation.
