famedadj.
/feɪmd/, U.S. /feɪmd/ 1. That is much talked about, known by report; †alleged by report; rumoured.
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a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1553) xiii. B v/1 There haue been diuers sonnes of Rome..famed throughout the worlde.
1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother ii. i The fam'd Vertue of our Ancestors.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. viii. 131 Complaining so heavily of..the famed acts of his [Cicero's] Son in law.
2.
a. Celebrated, renowned, famous. Now archaic except as predicate (const. for).
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective]
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1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. i. 156 Were he as famous and as bold in warre, As he is famde for mildnesse, peace and praier.
1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 25 This Scull was..brought thither by a fam'd Antiquary.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 228. ⁋2 A Man so famed for Astrological Observations.
1748 G. Washington Jrnl. 18 Mar. We..call'd to see ye fam'd Warm Springs.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xlv. 83 In fam'd Attica such lovely dales Are rarely seen.
1837 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. 8 July (1883) 52 A corpulent, jolly fellow, famed for humour.
1881 W. Allingham in Macmillan's Mag. XLIV. 228 He grew Famedest monk of all the monastery.
b. with prefixed adverb.
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a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 62 The ever-famed ‘last week of October’.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 262 The descendant of the far-famed James of Douglas.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 89 He..Lies quiet and well famed.
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