a. [f. FAR adv. + FAMED ppl. a.] That is famed to a great distance; well-known, widely celebrated.
1624. Massinger, Parl. Love, II. iii. The far-famed English Bath.
1725. Pope, Odyss., X. 162. From the same lineage stern Æætes came The far-fam’d brother of th’ enchantress dame.
1818. Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 539. To present at the threshold of that far-famed sanctuary of the laws, his humble supplications and prayers relative to the operations of one branch, or department, of that system of treachery.
1855. Kingsley, Heroes, v. (1868), 66. The far-famed slayer of the Gorgon.
1867. Lady Herbert, Cradle Lands, vii. 168. This was the far-famed valley of Eshcol.
