celebratedadj.

1549 W. Thomas Vanitee of World sig. Aviii^v He and his son bothe were slain of his owne souldiours, with that celebrated rumour, that pitie it were any one dogge shoulde liue of an ill litter.

1599 L. A. tr. M. Martínez Eighth Bk. Myrror of Knighthood sig. B The three most famous Inchauntments of Lyriana, Roselia of Rome, and the Celebrated bewteous Linda.

1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 12 Virginia is parallel in neerenesse of Staples, as well as neighbourhood to the sunne, to that celebrated Empire.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. To Sophronia sig. A5 Those Celebrated Ladies..taught their Children to Sway those Rulers of the World.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 399 This is a dull, imperfect description of this celebrated building.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 150 The only way a quack-medicine gets very celebrated, is, by its being constantly puffed off in advertisements.

1838 R. Southey Inscriptions xliii, in Poet. Wks. III. 169 In many a celebrated fight With Rodney [he] had his part.

1858 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 389/2 Who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.

1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. vi. 89 He drew up the celebrated ‘Schlieffen Plan’.

1965 T. Capote In Cold Blood i. 9 His celebrated coconut cookies were the first item to go at charity cake sales.

2009 New Yorker 5 Oct. 39/2 If she had a greater appetite for self-promotion she might be a celebrated painter.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. F2 Our celebrated rites of mariage.

1672 V. Mullineaux tr. J. E. Nieremberg Treat. Temporal & Eternal i. xv. 99 King Baltassar in the most solemn and celebrated day of his whole raign, wherein he made ostentation of his great riches and royal entertainment, was slain by the Persians.

1755 R. Parry Script. Acct. Lord's-supper 30 The Name, by which the Bread in this holy Supper is called, borrowed from a celebrated Feast among the Jews.

1845 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. Jan. 51 The festival of the birth of the Sun [was] one of the most celebrated festivals among the Romans.

1897 W. M. McKinney Encycl. Pleading & Pract. VII. 69 It is not necessary to allege all the facts showing the validity of a celebrated marriage.

1910 Amer. Jrnl. Relig. Psychol. & Educ. 4 13 Mithraism practiced a baptism of regeneration before admitting the neophyte to the solemnly celebrated eucharist.

2007 M. K. Asante Hist. Afr. vi. 88 The annual move from Lealui to Limulunga is a celebrated event in Zambia's festival year.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Celebratedness, famousness, renownedness.

1916 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 4 Nov. 16/4 (advt.) Nothing whatever approaches it, either for mere numbers of records cataloged,..or for the ‘celebratedness’ of the artists who make the records.

2001 CNN (Nexis) 10 May It was the L.A. sad story of someone who was good-looking, wanted to be famous,..and never could give up that dream of celebratedness.