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Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.

To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment. Leslie Stephen.

ys falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. Fame in time to come canonize us. Shak.

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

eckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. Jeffrey.

after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt. "This mad chase of fame." Dryden. You see this chase is hotly followed. Shak.

Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety. While they are so eager to destory the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. Dryden.

ts. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent. Fame, if not double-faced, is double mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds. Milton. The doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred Scripture. Whewell.

A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

Common report; fame. The cry goes that you shall marry her. Shak.

many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. Bacon.

th imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.

truction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.] To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. Morley.

, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circum…

To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft.