Gloppen

a. [Icel. glápa, to stare.] To confound with surprise. (Used as provincial English.) Gloria in Excels is, ( glo're - a in eks - seľ sis.) [Lat., glory to God in the highest.] ( Eccl .) The name of a hymn of the Roman Catholic Church, retained in the communion service of the Presbyterian Church, and so called from the words with which it begins. It is founded on the hymn of the Angels, given in Luke ii. 14, and is very ancient, appearing nearly as now used in the Apostolic Constitutions. In the Roman mi al it stands at the beginning of the office for the communion. Glorification, n. [Fr., from L. Lat. glorificatio .] Act of giving glory, or of ascribing honors to; as, the glorification of God. -Exaltation to honor and diguity; elevation to glory. . - To explain; to render clear and evident by com, ment; to illustrate. - To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to varnish; to cover; to palliate by specious representation. "You have the art to glo the foulest cause."- Philips . -v.n. To comment; to make explanatory remarks; to add scholia. To make sly remarks. Glo a'rial, a . Containing explanations. Glos's arist, n. [See infra .] A writer of glo es or comments.