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Webster 1913 Edition


Repute

Re-pute′

(r?-p?t′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reputed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Reputing
.]
[F.
réputer
, 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.
Shakespeare

Re-pute′

,
Noun.
1.
Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
He who regns
Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure
Sat on his throne, upheld by old
repute
.
Milton.
2.
Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; – opposed to disrepute.
“Dead stocks, which have been of repute.”
F. Beaumont.

Webster 1828 Edition


Repute

REPU'TE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. reputo; re and puto, to think.]
To think; to account; to hold; to reckon.
The king was reputed a prince most prudent.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight. Job. 18.

REPU'TE

, n.
1.
Reputation; good character; the credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; as men of repute.
2.
Character; in a bad sense; as a man held in bad repute.
3.
Established opinion; as upheld by old repute.

Definition 2024


repute

repute

See also: réputé, reputé, and répute

English

Noun

repute (uncountable)

  1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. [] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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Translations

Verb

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

  1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
    • Bible, Job xviii. 3
      Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
    • Shakespeare
      The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.
    • William Wollaston
      If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

Translations


Spanish

Verb

repute

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reputar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reputar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reputar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of reputar.