Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adulate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adulate \Ad"u*late\, v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.]
To flatter in a servile way. --Byron.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
adulate
v : flatter in an obsequious manner
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