ppl. a. [f. FAME v.1 + -ED1.]

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  1.  That is much talked about, known by report; † alleged by report; rumoured.

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a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel., xiii. (1553) B v/1. There haue bene dyuers sonnes of Rome, whiche beinge in strange countreys, haue done greatte proufyte to the common welthe, and noo lesse famed throughout the worlde, whiche after they were returned to theyr owne howses, haue spylte more bloode of innocentes, than they had done before of the Barbariens.

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1701.  Rowe, Amb. Step-Moth., II. i.

                            This Age
Of most flagitious Note, degenerates
From the fam’d Vertue of our Ancestors,
And leaves but few Examples of their Excellence.

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1741.  C. Middleton, Cicero, II. VIII. 131. Complaining so heavily in many of his letters to Atticus, of the famed acts of his [Cicero’s] Son in law.

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  2.  Celebrated, renowned, famous. Now arch. exc. as predicate (const. for).

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1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., II. i. 156.

        Were he as famous and as bold in Warre
As he is fam’d for Mildnesse, Peace, and Prayer.

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1676.  D’Urfey, Madam Fickle, III. i. This Scull was late resident in Dover Castle, brought thither by a fam’d Antiquary.

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1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 228, 23 Sept., ¶ 2. I know not why a Man so famed for Astrological Observations may not also be a good casuist.

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1748.  Washington, Jrnl., 18 March. We … call’d to see ye fam’d Warm Springs.

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1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. xlvi.

        Yet in famed Attica such lovely dales
Are rarely seen.

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1837.  Hawthorne, American Note-Books, 8 July (1883), 52. The Marshal of Maine, a corpulent, jolly fellow, famed for humor.

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1881.  W. Allingham, The First English Poet, in Macm. Mag., XLIV. July, 228.

                    He grew
Famedest monk of all the monastery.

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  b.  with prefixed adv.

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1796.  Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Wks. IX. 30. The ever-famed ‘last week of October.’

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1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, x. The descendant of the far-famed James of Douglas.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 89.

                While he, forgetting clean
The sorrow and the joy his eyes had seen,
Lies quiet and well famed.

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