单词 | reputed |
释义 | reputedadj. 1. Held in good or high repute; reputable.Outside Indian English, now chiefly with adverbs, as internationally reputed, etc.See also well-reputed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [adjective] faireOE wortheOE worthlyeOE worthfulOE menskful?c1225 toldc1275 digne1297 of price?a1300 worshiply1340 worthya1350 menska1375 thriftyc1374 worshipfula1375 worthilya1375 honesta1382 honourablec1384 unshamedc1384 sada1387 of reputationc1390 well-nameda1393 reverent1398 worthy (worshipful, wise) in wanea1400 celebrable?c1400 honouredc1400 worshipablec1425 substantialc1449 undefameda1450 unreviled?1457 honorousa1500 reputed?1532 well-thought-ona1533 well-spoken1539 credible1543 undespised?1548 imitable1550 famous1555 undistained1565 undefame1578 untarred1579 well-reputed1583 unsoiledc1592 dishonourless1595 well-deemed1595 nameworthy1598 regardful1600 indisgraced1606 credenta1616 undishonoureda1616 unscandalized1618 unscandalous1618 unslandered1622 untainted1627 dignousa1636 undisparaged1636 considerable1641 unbranded1641 glorifiable1651 reputable1671 unsullied1743 unstigmatized1778 undisgraced1812 unstained1863 well-thought-of1865 uncompromised1882 scandal-proof1904 cred1987 ?1532 Glasse of Truthe sig. F3v Dyuers of the moste reputed personages in lernynge..haue sayd..that if this matrimony were to be made, they wolde neuer condescende vnto it. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie 8 He preferred also the Ideote, and simple vulgars, before other learned and reputed persons. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine v. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ii3/1 Am I at length reputed? a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 245 So grave and reputed an Historian as is Iosephus. 1731 Flying Post 29 Apr. 2/1 George Raunsforth,..a reputed Conjurer, or (as the Country People call him) a Wise Man. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. ix. 192 I wrote a letter to a woman of great fame in the literary world; the reputed writer of a work, the praises of which had been often echoed. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 25 Grey's Charity for reputed old maids of the town of Elgin..daughters of respectable but decayed families. 1928 Daily Express 8 Aug. 15/3 Dr. Hanslick, the universally reputed professor of musical history. 1969 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. 17/6 An internationally reputed geologist. 1992 Times of India 30 July 3/6 All international networks, including a reputed one like the BBC. 1994 Jrnl. Canad. Stud. Spring 145/2 The highly reputed academic activist, feminist, scholar, and former CAUT President. 2002 Sunday Times of India 22 Sept. (Matrimonials) 12/7 Match for..fair, beautiful, cultured Bansai girl of reputed business family. 2. a. Generally believed, accounted, or reckoned (to be something specified); spec. in legal phrases, as reputed owner, etc.reputed manor: see manor n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [adjective] > reckoned to be trowedc1410 repute1442 putative?a1475 reputed1559 imaginarya1631 reputative1653 putatitious1654 1559 J. Knox Copie Epist. vnto Inhabitants Newcastle & Barwike 92 He be of the reputed enemie to God, and therfore vnworthie to reigne aboue his people. 1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 3 §2 The Mother and reputed Father of such Bastard Child. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 136 The reputed sonne of Cordelion. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 He had no Opinion of reputed Felicities below. 1755 E. Young Centaur iii. 146 A Wretch, almost smothered with all the reputed means of Happiness. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxix. 137 ‘The only honest friend who dares tell you what the world's conjectures buz abroad,’ said I. ‘You are the reputed mistress of Sir Sidney Aubrey.’ 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger II. ix. 83 Owing to the reputed badness of the path, that..was rejected for a more northerly one. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 854 The creditors of the apparent or reputed owner. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 855 The doctrines of reputed ownership. 1890 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. 114 A ‘reputed manor’ will serve as well as a real manor for most purposes. 1939 W. E. Woodward Lafayette xxii. 277 The Swedish nobleman..was the reputed lover of the queen. 1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville xv. 312 Men who are, in the prison idiom, ‘done for sus’, that is to say, prosecuted as ‘suspected persons or reputed thieves loitering with intent to commit a felony’. 2004 Independent 12 June 13/6 Although he gave up a reputed 60-a-day habit in order to be the nation's fitness guru, Dr Reid still identifies smoking as a ‘pleasure’. b. Designating a liquid measure equivalent to two-thirds the imperial measure, or the amount of liquid contained by such a measure, as reputed pint, reputed quart. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > pint pint1378 wine-pint1770 reputed pint1787 Paris pint1795 pt.1850 handle1909 the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > two pints or quart chopin1275 quarta1382 wine-quart1660 qt.1664 Winchester quart1742 reputed quart1787 1787 Act 24 Geo. III Stat. 36. c. 13 Each of which shall contain at the least three dozen reputed quart bottles or flasks. 1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 44 §2 Packages, each of which shall contain at the least six Dozen reputed Quart Bottles or Flaskes. 1846 Times 1 Aug. 11/3 This genuine ginger brandy may be had in reputed pint and quart bottles. 1873 I. Gregory Brit. Metric Syst. 47 How many metric pints are there in 20 thousand ‘reputed pint’ bottles? 1904 A. Makins Licensed Victuallers' Handbk. (rev. ed.) xiii. 216 Reputed quart means a bottle containing the sixth of a gallon, and a reputed pint a bottle containing the twelfth of a gallon. 1935 A. L. Simon Dict. Wine 172 Methuselah, double Jeroboam, holding 8 reputed quarts or 6·40 litres, equal to 225,350 fluid ounces. 1959 Gloss. Terms Packaging (B.S.I.) 29 The normal bottle of wine should contain 1/ 6 of a gallon..and is known as a ‘reputed quart’... Variants of the above are known as ‘mock quarts’..and may be of less capacity. 1985 Ethnohistory 32 265 In actual liquid measure, a U.S. Pint is equal to 0.473 liter, an Imperial Pint to 0.567 liter, and a Reputed Pint to 0.37 liter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1532 |
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