Obs. [a. OFr. alose-r, all-, to praise, f. à to + los:—L. *laudis for laus praise.]
1. To praise. Chiefly in pa. pple.: Praised, renowned.
c. 1314. Guy Warw., 64. As knight that wele alosed is.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 1474. He shal som Greke so preyse and wele alose.
c. 1440. Morte Arth., 3882. Ffore he was lyone allossede in londes i-newe.
c. 1448. in R. Glouc. Chron., 450, note. These ij bisshoppes … were the most alosed bisshoppes.
2. refl. To renown oneself.
1340. Ayenb., 183. To ssewy his strengþe ine tornemens oþer ine viȝtinges him uor to alosi. Ibid., 199. In þe viȝtinge … huer þe knyȝt lierneþ, ham proueþ and aloseþ.
3. In a bad sense: To fame, report.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 274. For her lodlych laykeȝ alosed þay were.
1389. E. Eng. Gilds, 11. If any of the bretheren be alosed of thefte … they be put out of the bretherhede.
