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▪ I. † faˈmose, a. Obs.
[ad. L. fāmōs-us, f. fāma (see fame).]
= famous.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 181 In whom grete Constantine erecte ij. famose chirches. c1449Pecock Repr. i. v. 27 Bicause such speche is famose in vce. c1530in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 46 Famose poetys of antiquite. 1562Register of St. Andrews Kirk Session (1889) I. 182 Befoyr ane curat and famos wytnes. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxvi. (1887) 103 The famosest knight, of the fellowship. c1625Whitelocke Lib. Fam. (Camden) 13 A reader..that was reputed the famosest in that language about the towne. 1727–36in Bailey.
▪ II. † faˈmose, v. Obs. exc. arch.
Also 6–7 famoze, 7 famoize.
[f. prec. adj.]
= famous v. 1.
1590Tarlton News Purgat. (1844) 53 That merrye Roscius..that famosed all comedies so with his pleasant and extemporall invention. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 687 The red crosse, by which Saint George the Tutelar Saint of all Englishmen is famozed. 1650Don Bellianis 55 Our Prince, that is no lesse famosed then he. 1845Halliwell Fairy Mythology p. viii, Robin Goodfellow was famosed in every old wives' chronicle for his mad merry pranks.
Hence † faˈmosed ppl. a. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis iii. (Arb.) 80 Possesseth Pyrrhus thee spouse of famosed Hector? 1600Tourneur Transf. Metamorph. lxv, This noble conquest made him famoized. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i. (1772) 27 The halcyon famosed For colours rare. |