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reputed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repute \Re*pute"\ (r?-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Reputing.] [F. r['e]puter, L. reputare to count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count, think. See Putative.] To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in
your sight?
--Job xviii.
3.
The king your father was reputed for
A prince most prudent.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "held in repute," past participle adjective from repute (v.). Meaning "supposed to be" is from 1570s. Related: Reputedly.
Wiktionary
1 Pertaining to a reputation accorded to another. 2 Pertaining to that which is supposed or assumed to be true. v
(en-past of: repute)
WordNet
adj. commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth" [syn: putative(a), purported(a), reputed(a), supposed(a)]
Usage examples of "reputed".
Longarm thought that the rotund and genial Indian was probably in his mid-forties, but George was extremely active and reputed to be one of the finest mustangers in the state of Nevada.
The enlisted men were let out only on rare occasions, and then they would cross the river in rowing boats and climb the hill and pay whatever price was asked for any kind of brownish popskull liquor whatsoever, as long as it was vaguely reputed to be Barbados rum or Tennessee whiskey.
The multitudinous philosophies may thus be reduced to a single quaternion, and the reputed inaugurator of a new philosophy is like to be a charlatan.
He would have been appalled to learn that they refrained from doing so for fear of ingesting one of the poisons with which unclean humans were reputed to be saturated.
Tom and his dad decided on a large plate of nachos and the house salsa, reputed to be hotter than hades, to occupy us until the rest of the food arrived.
He was sent to the parish school of Kirkton, and afterwards placed under the tutorship of a Cameronian clergyman, in Denholm, reputed as a classical scholar.
It would not take much to convince the Emperor that this Erich von Harben is an emissary of Cassius Hasta, who is reputed to be in Castra Sanguinarius.
On rare occasions one or other of us had sight of the Cavaliere Aquamorta, who maintained the same magnificence at the Albergo del Sole, and was reputed to be making large sums with his faro-bank.
Both were servile in the presence of Raymond Dagwood, who was reputed to be the most wealthy man in Sharport.
Third, that some members of the great Dracula family were reputed to have attended the school and there learned occult powers from the Evil One.
I was preparing to inspect the lower floors, where the inmates are reputed to dwell, when Peterson and Selby Thomm stepped out of a closet adjoining the office.
She was grandchild to Eleanor Hadfield, an aged woman, who was reputed as a witch by my father and his set, for no other reason, that I can make out, than her scorn, dignity, and fearlessness of rancour.
This, of course, was the only fitting behavior for hara whose tribe were reputed to be innately catlike.
A being reputed by some to be almost a deity in human form, the followers of Kwa were a secret body who kept their beliefs to themselves.
Sadolet was not only reputed the finest Latinist of the age, but he was the most gracious of the Roman prelates, a friend of Erasmus, an admirer of Contarini, and the author of a commentary on St.