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inˈfamed, ppl. a. arch. [f. prec. vb. + -ed1.] Made or become infamous; branded with infamy.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. iv. (1520) 39/1 Here was the fyrst that ever the chyrche of Rome had an infamed pope. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 176 He waistit al the public rentis..in his infamit lust. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. x. §4 (1622) 102 Theodorus, the most infamed of the Atheists. 1663Flagellum or O. Cromwell (ed. 2) 8 For Drinking..and the like outrages of licentious youth, none so infam'd as this young Tarquin. †b. Legally pronounced or held infamous. Obs.
1529More Dyaloge iii. iii. 72 a/1 [That] the lawe made by the chyrche, sholde..admytte and receyue a persone infamed. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 277 Abused by the flattery of sick ane infamet person of the law and mensworne apostate. 1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 134 Whosoeuer vsed diceplaying was taken..and holden as infamed persons. c. Her. (= F. infamé.) Applied to a lion or other beast figured without a tail; = defamed 2.
1780in Edmondson Heraldry II. Gloss. 1828in Berry Encycl. Herald. I. 1889 Elvin Dict. Her. Plate 26, Defamed, Defame, or Infamed. |