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reputed, ppl. a.|rɪˈpjuːtɪd|
[f. repute v.]
1. Held in repute. Now used after an adverb, as internationally reputed, etc. (not often found in good sources).
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly 8 He preferred also the Ideote, and simple vulgars, before other learned and reputed persons. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Captain v. i, Am I at length reputed? a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 245 So grave and reputed an Historian as is Iosephus. 1928Daily Express 8 Aug. 15/3 Dr. Hanslick, the universally reputed professor of musical history. 1969Daily Tel. 4 Aug. 17/6 An internationally reputed geologist.
2. a. Supposed, accounted, reckoned (to be something specified); spec. in Law, as reputed manor (see manor 3 b), reputed owner, etc.
1576Act 18 Eliz. c. 3 §2 The Mother and reputed Father of such Bastard Child. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 136 The reputed son of Cordelion. 1672Sir T. Browne Let. Friend §24 He had no opinion of reputed felicities below. 1755Young Centaur iii. Wks. 1757 IV. 174 A wretch, almost smothered with all the reputed means of happiness. 1832R. & J. Lander Exped. Niger II. ix. 83 Owing to the reputed badness of the path, that..was rejected for a more northerly one. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 854 The creditors of the apparent or reputed owner. Ibid. 855 The doctrines of reputed ownership. 1890Sir F. Pollock Oxford Lect. 114 A ‘reputed manor’ will serve as well as a real manor for most purposes.
b. reputed pint, reputed quart, etc.: (see quot. 1904). Also, the amount of liquid contained by such a measure.
1904Makins & Lambert 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. An Imperial Pint is an eighth part of a gallon. 1935[see Methuselah 2]. 1959Gloss. 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. |