laudate

verb

1. (uncommon)To laud.

   “After some laudating remarks on the character of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. T. said, that it was not proposed to be placed in the Capitol, but in the yard.”

   “Mr. Furley is laudated and exalted as a man of more than common talent,—as a star of the first magnitude, because Mr. Lawry has seen him in the pulpit of the old meeting-house at Tresayes, and because he led a superintendent preacher by the arm, through the streets of St. Austell in a time of persecution.”

   “To laudate the originators or patronizers is no part of our intention, their works bear witness; it is alone from our firm conviction of the utility of the institution in itself, that we desire to give it all the publicity we can, and in this the newspaper press in general might do well to afford their aid.”

   “A candidate appears to solicit the suffrages of the electors. He is perhaps execrated, then tolerated, then laudated.”

   “In wishing to indicate our contempt for such men, we have perhaps leaned unadvisedly to the contrary side and viewed with favor the pretensions of empirical and self-laudating ignoramuses.”