单词 | reputed owner |
释义 | > as lemmasreputed owner a. Generally believed, accounted, or reckoned (to be something specified); spec. in legal phrases, as reputed owner, etc.reputed manor: see manor n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [adjective] > reckoned to be trowedc1410 repute1442 putative?a1475 reputed1559 imaginarya1631 reputative1653 putatitious1654 1559 J. Knox Copie Epist. vnto Inhabitants Newcastle & Barwike 92 He be of the reputed enemie to God, and therfore vnworthie to reigne aboue his people. 1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 3 §2 The Mother and reputed Father of such Bastard Child. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 136 The reputed sonne of Cordelion. View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 8 He had no Opinion of reputed Felicities below. 1755 E. Young Centaur iii. 146 A Wretch, almost smothered with all the reputed means of Happiness. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. lxxix. 137 ‘The only honest friend who dares tell you what the world's conjectures buz abroad,’ said I. ‘You are the reputed mistress of Sir Sidney Aubrey.’ 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger II. ix. 83 Owing to the reputed badness of the path, that..was rejected for a more northerly one. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 854 The creditors of the apparent or reputed owner. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 855 The doctrines of reputed ownership. 1890 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. 114 A ‘reputed manor’ will serve as well as a real manor for most purposes. 1939 W. E. Woodward Lafayette xxii. 277 The Swedish nobleman..was the reputed lover of the queen. 1963 T. Morris & P. Morris Pentonville xv. 312 Men who are, in the prison idiom, ‘done for sus’, that is to say, prosecuted as ‘suspected persons or reputed thieves loitering with intent to commit a felony’. 2004 Independent 12 June 13/6 Although he gave up a reputed 60-a-day habit in order to be the nation's fitness guru, Dr Reid still identifies smoking as a ‘pleasure’. < as lemmas |
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