infame
English
Etymology
Latin infamare, from īnfāmis (“infamous”): compare French infamer, Italian infamare. See infamous.
Verb
infame (third-person singular simple present infames, present participle infaming, simple past and past participle infamed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- Francis Bacon
- Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for infame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Catalan
Derived terms
French
Galician
German
Italian
Latin
Spanish
Derived terms
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.