adulator|ˈædjʊˌleɪtə(r)|[a. L. adūlātorn.of agent,f.adūlā-ri: see adulate,cf.Fr.adulateur.]One who offers praise consciously exaggerated or unmerited; a servile or hypocritical flatterer.[Not inCotgr.1611, who defines AdulateurFr.as A flatterer, cogger, smoother, soother, fawner, clawback. Not in Sherwood 1650.]1696Phillips,Adulator, a Flatterer, a fawning Fellow, a Claw-back.1779J. Sullivan in SparksCorr.Am.Rev.(1853) II. 367Could you have believed that those Adulators..would become your bitter enemies?1835I. TaylorSp.Despotism vi. 259Constantine..by his adulators styled Chief bishop of the Church.1854tr.Lamartine's Celebr. Charact. II. 40Aristophanes, a vile adulator of the follies and superstitions cherished by vulgar ignorance.