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One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.

• Sycophantic
  Alt. of Sycophantical
• Welcomeness
  The quality or state of being welcome; gratefulness; agreeableness; kind reception.
• Sycophantical
  Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.
• ANOTHERGAINES
  Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
• Sycophantish
  Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.
• ANOTHERGATES
  Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• Another-gaines
  Of another kind.
• Sycophantism
  Sycophancy.
• ANOTHERGUESS
  Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• Another-gates
  Of another sort.
• Sycophantize
  To play the sycophant.
• Another-guess
  Of another sort.
• Sycophantry
  Sycophancy.
• SYCOPHANTICSYCOPHANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Q
• Tables d'hote
  of Table d'hote
• Expensefull
  Full of expense; costly; chargeable.

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