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celebrated, ppl. a.|ˈsɛlɪbreɪtɪd| [f. prec + -ed.] 1. Performed with customary rites.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. i. ad. fin., Our celebrated rites of marriage. 2. Much talked about, famed, renowned.
1665–9Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) Ded., Those Celebrated Ladies..taught their Children to Sway those Rulers of the World. 1717Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. xlvi. 33 This is a dull imperfect description of this celebrated building. 1827Southey Inscript. xliii, In many a celebrated fight With Rodney [he] had his part. 1855Maury Phys. Geog. Sea xviii. (1860) §768 Neither India, nor the East coasts of Africa..are celebrated for their fish. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Eloquence Wks. (Bohn) III. 30 Who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Hence † ˈcelebratedˌness.
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