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The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame. One of the few, immortal names, That were not born yo die. Halleck.

Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame.

To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes.

lowed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. M…

render liable or subject to; to occasion. [Obs.] Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. Chapman.

To make infamous; to defame. [R.] Coleridge.

Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. Shak. My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life. Dryden. Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. Gray.

insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.

Glory; fame; renown; praise. W. H. Russel.

ambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.

To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon. Some wicked wits have libeled all the fair. Pope.

culation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers came. Pope.

pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.

Praise; fame; reputation. [Obs.] Spenser. Good conscience and good loos. Chaucer.

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.

Merit or desert; worth. My meed hath got me fame. Shak.

very important or remarkable. -- Mem"o*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv. Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. Sir J. Davies.

building. There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. Pope.