Also 6–7 bruite, 6–8 brute. [f. BRUIT sb.]
1. trans. To noise, report, rumor. Often with abroad, about.
a. 1528. Skelton, Col. Clout, 489. With language thus poluted, Holy Churche is bruted.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John, iv. 28. The woman did bruit abrode this rumour.
1598. Drayton, Heroic. Ep., XVI. 101. When Fame shall brute thy Banishment abroad.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. iii. 68. I finde thou art no lesse then Fame hath bruited.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, 43. If I first brute this, the tidings, that will come after, will all be swallowed up of this.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. III. IV. iii. 263. The country is getting up; noise of you is bruited day after day.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge (1866), II. lxxiii. 66. This report … was bruited about with much industry.
b. with subord. clause, or an equivalent.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. ccxxii. [ccxviii.] 691. The Frenchemen bruteth that ye wyll put out of your armes tharmes of Fraunce.
1538. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (1845), 404. [Those] … which were bruited to deny the sacrament.
1651. Proc. Parliament, No. 98. 1502. The Enemy was bruted to be upon his March towards Carlisle.
1706. Estcourt, Fair Examp., IV. i. 51. To blast my Fame, and brute it to the World that you have left me.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, IV. i. They do bruit it that he sees visions.
c. intr.
1818. Keats, Endymion, I. 791. Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a giant battle was.
2. trans. To speak of, make famous, celebrate.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet., 11. Let Cesar, Alexander, and Hanniball be bruted for warriers.
1598. Yong, Diana, 98. Of whom Fame brutes their name in euery ground.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., V. (1851), 113. A man so much bruited for learning.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, VIII. 220. The shield of Nestor, bruited to the skies.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. 37. Thy wild name Was ne’er more bruited in men’s minds than now.
† 3. To din. Obs.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), IV. 86. Whole Towns you will bruit with a Pettifogging Suit.
