v. [f. BE- 2 + LAUD.] trans. To load with praise.

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a. 1849.  Poe, Wks. (1864), III. 139. Was belauded by the universal American press.

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1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., I. 14. Suicide … which many Stoics belauded.

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  Hence Belauded ppl. a.

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1857.  Hughes, Tom Brown, I. iii. (1871), 61. Abused and much belauded institutions.

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1866.  Sat. Rev., 25 Aug., 236/2. The belauded administration of the Duke of Somerset.

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