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English
Etymology
From Latin collaudāre, from col- + laudāre (“to praise”).
Verb
collaud (third-person singular simple present collauds, present participle collauding, simple past and past participle collauded)
- (obsolete) To join in praising.
1628 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Captain Tho. B. from York. ”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume I, London: Humphrey Mos[e]ley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section V, page 194:Beaſts wild and tame, / whom lodgings yield, / houſe, dens, or field, / Collaud his Name.