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Sycophant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Originally, an informer against those who stole figs, or exported them contrary to law, etc. Hence in time it came to signify a talebearer or informer, in general; hence, a parasite; a mean flatterer; especially a flatterer of princes and great men; hence, a deceiver; an impostor. Its most general use is in the sense of an obsequious flatterer or parasite.

2. SYC'OPHANT

Sycophant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An informer; a talebearer.

2. A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

Sycophant [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To play the sycophant.

Sycophant [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

2. To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Sycophantcy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sycophantic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Talebearing; more generally, obsequiously flattering; parasitic; courting favor by mean adulation.

2. sycophantic plants, or parasites, are such as adhere to other plants, and depend on them for support.

Sycophantic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sycophantical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.

Sycophantish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sycophantism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sycophantize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To play the sycophant; to flatter meanly and officiously; to inform or tell tales for gaining favor.

Sycophantize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To play the sycophant.

Sycophantry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sycophantry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913