▪ I. † faˈmose, a. Obs.
[ad. L. fāmōs-us, f. fāma (see fame).]
= famous.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 181 In whom grete Constantine erecte ij. famose chirches. c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. v. 27 Bicause such speche is famose in vce. c 1530 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 46 Famose poetys of antiquite. 1562 Register of St. Andrews Kirk Session (1889) I. 182 Befoyr ane curat and famos wytnes. 1581 Mulcaster Positions xxvi. (1887) 103 The famosest knight, of the fellowship. c 1625 Whitelocke Lib. Fam. (Camden) 13 A reader..that was reputed the famosest in that language about the towne. 1727–36 in Bailey. |
▪ II. † faˈmose, v. Obs. exc. arch.
Also 6–7 famoze, 7 famoize.
[f. prec. adj.]
= famous v. 1.
| 1590 Tarlton News Purgat. (1844) 53 That merrye Roscius..that famosed all comedies so with his pleasant and extemporall invention. 1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 687 The red crosse, by which Saint George the Tutelar Saint of all Englishmen is famozed. ? 1650 Don Bellianis 55 Our Prince, that is no lesse famosed then he. 1845 Halliwell Fairy Mythology p. viii, Robin Goodfellow was famosed in every old wives' chronicle for his mad merry pranks. |
Hence † faˈmosed ppl. a. Obs.
| 1583 Stanyhurst Aeneis iii. (Arb.) 80 Possesseth Pyrrhus thee spouse of famosed Hector? 1600 Tourneur Transf. Metamorph. lxv, This noble conquest made him famoized. 1613 W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i. (1772) 27 The halcyon famosed For colours rare. |