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One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.

; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

An obsequious; a flatterer. [R.]

A flatterer; a wheedler.

regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] "Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer." Beau. & Fl.

A flatterer or sycophant. [Obs.] "Take heed of these clawbacks." Latimer.

A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.

they really were so. South. One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. Shak.

re than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot.

To smear; to play the flatterer. His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter. South.

To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. J. Morley.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spreadeth a net for his feet. Prov. xxix. 5. Others he flattered by asking their advice. Prescott.

A sycophant. [Obs. & Humorous.] "Flatterers and flibbergibs." Latimer.

irely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

One who entertains for another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.

Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.

A flatterer. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.