SYCOPHANT

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney.

2.
n.

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men. A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. Dryden.

3.
v.

To inform against; hence, to calumniate. [Obs.] Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary. Milton.

4.
v.

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

5.
v.

To play the sycophant.

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