bruitedadj.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 395 The bruted Britons of Brutus Albion.

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 215 Whose thunderyng clanges of bruted fame, on yearth shall neuer die.

1630 M. Godwin tr. F. Godwin Ann. Eng. i. 68 The Kings much bruited humanity.

1661 H. P. Cressy Reflexions Oathes Supremacy 61 That so bruited Article of Faith touching the Popes power of deposing Princes.

1796 G. L. Way tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy Fabliaux I. 147 Of her passing might in magick spell, Scarce needs it now the bruited fame to tell.

1838 R. M. Milnes Poems II. 26 The curious traveller takes down A random volume, from the dusty shelf, To trace the progress of a bruited name.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 51 The most bruited..hydropathic appliances.

1936 Rotarian Dec. 41/1 The power of the press is a much bruited and mooted matter.

1987 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 67 335 One recurrent and endlessly bruited theme is that the Toltec architecture and period at Chichén Itzá are contemporary with the late Maya Classic florescence of the Puuc cities.

2009 Harvard Rev. 37 131 Perhaps it is some deep-seated, native-son confidence that Brooklyn will never quite get it together that allows me to anticipate its bruited transformation with relative sanguinity.