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Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16.

Without fame or renown. -- Fame"less*ly, adv.

To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.

Evil name; bad reputation; defamation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Disrepute. [R.] Tennyson.

To defame; to make infamous. [Obs.] Milton. Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. Bacon.

Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n.

eceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

sult; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. The whole amount of that enormous fame. Pope.

"Lords of antic fame." Phaer.

ence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

That which accompanies; a concomitant. [A] sense of fame, the attendant of noble spirits. Pope.

A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.

re to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

y. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." Shak. For what is glory but the blaze of fame Milton.

To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame. There had nothing passed between us that might blemish reputation. Oldys.

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.