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famed, ppl. a.|ˈfeɪmd|
[f. fame v.1 + -ed1.]
1. That is much talked about, known by report; † alleged by report; rumoured.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. xiii. (1553) B v/1 There haue been diuers sonnes of Rome..famed throughout the worlde. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. ii. i, The fam'd Vertue of our Ancestors. 1741Middleton Cicero II. viii. 131 Complaining so heavily of..the famed acts of his [Cicero's] Son in law.
2. Celebrated, renowned, famous. Now arch. exc. as predicate (const. for).
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. i. 156 Were he as famous and as bold in Warre As he is fam'd for Mildnesse, Peace, and Prayer. 1676D'Urfey Mad. Fickle iii. i, This Scull was..brought thither by a fam'd Antiquary. 1710Steele Tatler No. 228 ⁋2 A Man so famed for Astrological Observations. 1748Washington Jrnl. 18 Mar., We..call'd to see y⊇ fam'd Warm Springs. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xlvi, In famed Attica such lovely dales Are rarely seen. 1837Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. 8 July (1883) 52 A corpulent, jolly fellow, famed for humour. 1881W. Allingham in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 228 He grew Famedest monk of all the monastery.
b. with prefixed adv.
1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 30 The ever-famed ‘last week of October’. 1828Scott F.M. Perth x, The descendant of the far-famed James of Douglas. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 89 He..Lies quiet and well famed. |