Repute \Re*pute"\ (r?-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reputed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reputing}.] [F. r['e]puter, 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. --Shak.
Repute \Re*pute"\, n. 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.
Lumping the pacific, slow-moving, affectionate sour mugs with the vicious and aggressive American pit bull terrier of deservedly bad repute is somewhat like associating Elsie the milk cow with el toros de la plaza.
The PACs we talked to said they felt unrelenting pressure to attend fundraisers, that they were unfairly being held responsible for skyrocketing campaign costs and that the public held them in low repute," the center's report said.
Saatchi & Saatchi is an agency of great repute and has already acquired experience in the automobile sector.
But inevitably many find it difficult to shift their focus, to find new ways of saying and showing. Professor Richard Schechner of New York University is the first international director of repute to work in South Africa for a long time.
The program in Britain of steadily reducing tax rates has been the central pillar of the nation's recovery and restored repute.
She runs a house of ill repute.
Regardless of how manufacturing executives get their training, corporations also are recognizing that they bear much of the responsibility for the low repute into which manufacturing has fallen over the years.
The only other remaining British auto concern of any size or repute still in British hands is Rover Group PLC.