losenger

English

Etymology

From Middle English losengeour, losenger, from Old French losengier, losengeor, from losengier (“to deceive, flatter”), losenge (“flattery”), flattery, Occitan lauzenga, from Latin laus praise. Compare lozenge.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

losenger (plural losengers)

(obsolete) A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 60:
  To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “losenger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Glen Rose

Middle English

Noun

losenger

Alternative form of losengeour

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