▪ I. repute, n.
(rɪˈpjuːt)
[f. the vb.]
† 1. Opinion, estimate. Obs. rare.
| 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580) 74 One..saied thus after other mennes judgement, and repute given. 1674 W. Tomlinson Epistle to Flock 3 Their judgment and repute of thee is true. 1707 E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. i. iii. ii. 265 The Common Repute is, that a Gallon of Wheaten Meal weighs 7 Pound Avoirdupois. a 1711 Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 162 One act intense, may in God's mild repute, For a whole Age of Penances commute. |
2. Reputation of a specified kind.
| 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580) 88, I desire of all men..to give me none evill repute for my well meanyng. 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 72 Let them be men of good repute and carriage. 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 472 Winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. 1771 Junius Lett. l. (1788) 273 In what repute can he conceive that he stands with his people? 1819 Shelley Cenci v. ii. 36 You have a good repute for gentleness. 1879 Dixon Windsor II. i. 7 Boasting of no small repute in arms and of a great repute in verse. |
† b. The reputation of (having or being) something. Obs.
| 1651 Fuller's Abel Rediv., Scaliger 499 He wrote much..; but to avoid the repute of ambition would not suffer them to be Printed. 1683 Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 82 Only to such as challenge the repute of Wisdom. 1699 Ld. Reay in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 189 Who had then the repute of an honest man. |
† 3. Relative estimation; rank or position. Obs.
| 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 48 A place of high trust, and the third in repute through the Empire. c 1645 Howell Lett. i. xxxviii. (1650) I. 57 All these Cardinals have the repute of Princes. 1659 Philipott Kent 139 An ancient Farme, which formerly had the Repute of a Mannor. 1700 Dryden Ovid's Met. xii. 246 O father, first for prudence in repute. |
4. Reputation, distinction, honour, credit.
| 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 23 Ceremony which giueth repute vnto things in themselues but triuiall. 1716 Atterbury Serm. (1737) III. 223 These ungodly..set up for a repute by disbelieving everything. 1781 Cowper Conversat. 818 That fables old..Revived are hastening into fresh repute. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India III. ii. 68 This is a rule..one would not be surprised at finding in force and repute. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 106 A man of repute will desire to avoid doing what is ludicrous. |
5. The reputation of a particular person.
| 1662 Pepys Diary 23 Dec., Mr. Edward Montagu is quite broke at Court with his repute and purse. 1683 D. A. Art Converse 16 Omitting nothing that rage can invent to black his repute. 1784 Cowper Tiroc. 461 Our public hives of puerile resort..To such base hopes..Owe their repute in part. 1882 Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxx. 2 Lips should never be red with the blood of honest men's reputes. |
b. In phr. by repute.
| 1838 James Robber ii, I know him well, by repute. |
▪ II. repute, v.
(rɪˈpjuːt)
Also 5 repotten.
[ad. F. réputer (1294 in Godef.), or L. reputāre, f. re- re- + putāre to reckon, think, etc.]
1. trans. To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something. a. with simple complement.
| c 1460 G. Ashby Dicta Philos. 1107 Sum men reputen of consuetude Euery thinge goode. 1483 Caxton Cato B j b, To thende that they may be reputed and holden sage and wyse. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 829 The enterprise..was of him reputed of no regarde or estimacion. 1612 T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 9 If any shall deeme and repute it an impotent meanes to raise men to the grace of life. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §17. 17 The glory of being reputed the First Inventors or Founders of the Atomical Philosophy. 1718 Free-thinker No. 62. 46 The Morning-Sneezings..were not reputed Good. 1825 Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 66 As to this they shall be reputed at peace. 1859 Tennyson Guinevere 379 Lancelot came, Reputed the best knight and goodliest man. |
b. with infinitive, esp. to be or to have.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 219 b/1 Why reputest thou the dedes of my merytes to be unworthy? 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxxxi. 159 They reputed themselfe to haue the vyctorie. 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 448 Ingratitude, which Rome reputes to be a hainous sinne. 1656 Bramhall Replic. v. 209 How he reputes their sufferings..to be his own. 1711 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 193 Reputeing what was don to his great friend to be don to himself. 1832 R. & J. Lander Exped. Niger II. xi. 136 His soldiers..are reputed to be brave, bold, and enterprising men. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 29 Rhadamanthus..is reputed among us to have been the justest of men. |
† 2. a. To take (one) for something. Obs.
| 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 38 As a leche is not reputed nor taken for goode nor connying that..can not hele him selfe. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour B ij, Who that speketh ouermoche is not reputed for wyse. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 718 King Lewys, whom he reputed for his mortall enemie. 1615 Jackson Creed iv. xi. §1 Dost thou imagine that he reputes Christ for the Son of God..? 1670 H. Stubbe A Reply 71 He..is content to repute me for Pious. |
† b. To regard, reckon, account as something.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 376/2, I repute alle erthelye thynges as donge and fylthe. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 37 All ȝour injure we repute as our awin. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 105 b, They y{supt} fle be worthy to be reputed as traitors to y⊇ king. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 49 The rest reputed as naturall Turks. 1654 Bramhall Just Vind. vi. (1661) 140 The Barons of the kingdom reputed him as a Traytor. |
† c. To consider to be in a person or thing. Obs.
| 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 35 A wys man reputeth not the worship of god in wordes but in dedes. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxvi. 73 Sir, ye repute but small honour in the kyng of Nauar. 1533 Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 353 His highnes doth not onlie repute moche honour in your grace [etc.]. |
† d. To account oneself to have something. Obs.—1
| 1539 Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 27 By pride reputynge to haue them of hym selfe, and not of god. |
† e. To consider that or how. Obs. rare.
| 1549 Chaloner Erasm. on Folly G ij, I would my Maisters..shoulde repute with theym selues, how on all sydes theyr myndes are vexed continually. 1623 Bingham Xenophon 63 Xenophon reputing in his minde, that..the enemie..might distresse the cariage in passing by [etc.]. |
† 3. To assign, attribute, impute, or reckon to a person. Also const. for or to something. Obs.
| 1432 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 406/1 Yat men mowe repute and cast the defaute, if eny be, there it aught. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 388/2 Theffusyon of our blood shal be reputed to you for baptesme. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. clxv. 202 It ought nat to be reputed to me any prowes. 1550 J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §9 (1877) 60 This Clowes is the fyrst kyng of Fraunce to whom I repute honoure. 1582 N.T. (Rhem.) Rom. iv. 9 For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice. 1659 Hammond On Ps. cvi. 31 It was reputed to him for righteousness. |
† b. To regard, take into account. Obs.—1
| c 1450 Lovelich Grail li. 50 That he ne wolde for myn hygh falsnesse My synnes to Repotten In this distresse. |
† 4. To have or hold (one) in repute or esteem; to think (well, etc.) of; to value. Also, to hold equal in worth to something. Obs.
| 1444 Rolls of Parlt. V. 73/2 To repute, accept,..and take my said Lord..to his goode and benygne grace and favour. 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 30 He was byloued & dere reputed of euery body. 1535 Coverdale 1 Sam. xxvi. 24 As thy soule hath bene greatly reputed in my sighte this daye, so let y⊇ Lorde repute my soule in his sighte. 1571 Campion Hist. Irel. xii. (1633) 38 Conill Lord of Connaght..honourably reputed him, and with all his people was converted. 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 48 Is there any thing in the world to be reputed (I will not say compared) to friendship? c 1665 Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846) 37 Their generous..inclinations..had made the family continue as well beloved and reputed as any of the prouder houses in the country. |
† 5. intr. To think (highly, etc.) of a thing or person. Also with omission of adv. Obs.
| 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 48 He..By reputing of his high discent,..Did instigate the..Duchesse. 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, I can allow..you should repute highly..of your own endowments. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 42 The Priests are singularly reputed of. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I) 14, I doe therefore account myselfe very happy to be reputed of, by a person who is able to give a value to things of themselves worthless. 1698 Potter Antiq. Greece (1715) II. Index, Adultery, how reputed of, and punish'd. |
▪ III. repute, pa. pple. Chiefly Sc.
(rɪˈpjuːt)
[irreg. f. OF. reputé or L. reputātus (see prec. and the etym. note to depute ppl. a.), perh. partly by assimilation to such forms as execute.]
Reputed, considered, reckoned. habit and repute: see habit ppl. a.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxi. (Eugenia) 278 Scho herd tel þat in sic ane abbay can duel..a man reput of gud fame. 1442 Rolls of Parlt. V. 59/1 That the seide declaration..be not hadde, repute ner takyn for accompte. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 152 Gude will..is repute till a persone for gude dede. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxix. 3 Fredome, honour and nobilnes..Ar now in cowrt reput as vyce. 1567 Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 43 Princes ar repute Nobilest, The quhilk rewlis moste awfullie. 1639 Drummond of Hawthornden Consid. to Parlt. Wks. (1711) 185 He shall still..be repute, holden, and decerned legitimate. 1685 Scotch Proclam. 28 Apr. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2032/3 Under the pain of being Repute and esteemed Art and Part with them all in their wicked Deeds and Practices. 1753–1861 [see habit ppl. a.]. |