noun
definition
Reputation, especially a good reputation.
verb
definition
To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
definition
To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
Examples of repute in a Sentence
It enjoys some repute as a summer resort.
Tunstal was as good a Catholic as Bonner; he left a different repute behind him, a clear enough indication of a difference in their deeds.
The greater part of his career was associated with Vienna, where he acquired high repute as a literary journalist.
These need not detain us for long, since, however well some of them may have been executed, regard being had to their epoch, and whatever repute some of them may have achieved, they are, so far as general information and especially classification is concerned, wholly obsolete, and most of them almost useless except as matters of antiquarian interest.
It was necessary for his own good repute and the future of his work that a definitive sentence should be pronounced and his name cleared once and for all.
Printers of repute at Cracow, during the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, were Sybeneicher and Piotrkowczyk.
Latin poetry was cultivated with great success by Clement Janicki (1516-1543), but the earliest poet of repute who wrote in Polish is Rej of Naglowice (1505-1569).
It has been growing in repute as a health resort; the only considerable industry is weaving.
It faded away in the great Church, and probably Celsus was describing Montanist circles (though Origen assumed that they were ordinary believers) when he wrote 3 of the many Christians of no repute who at the least provocation, whether within or without their temples, threw themselves about like inspired persons; while others did the same in cities or among armies in order to collect alms, roaming about cities or camps.
The town lies among hills, has an excellent climate, and in colonial times was (like Holguin) an acclimatization station for troops fresh from Spain; it now has considerable repute as a health resort.
Muswell Hill took name from a holy well, of high repute for curative powers, over which an oratory was erected early in the 12th century, attached to the priory of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell.
The project met with determined opposition for about twenty years (1675-1695) from persons of considerable repute in the body.
The Messager des sciences historiques (1833), at Ghent, was in repute on account of its historical and antiquarian character.
In Belgium and the north of France flat ropes of aloe fibre (Manila hemp or plantain fibre) are in high repute, being considered preferable by many colliery managers to wire, in spite of their great weight.
The Hydrozoa comprise the hydroids, so abundant on all shores, most of which resemble vegetable organisms to the unassisted eye; the hydrocorallines, which, as their name implies, have a massive stony skeleton and resemble corals; the jelly-fishes so called; and the Siphonophora, of which the species best known by repute is the so-called "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia), dreaded by sailors on account of its terrible stinging powers.
There are mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.
The place still enjoys much repute among Turks, as the burialplace of Nur-ed-din Khoja.
At Belcoo, near Enniskillen, there is a famous well called Daragh Phadric, held in repute by the peasantry for its cure of paralytic and other diseases; and 4 m.
Meanwhile his lectures and publications (among the latter a Grundriss der Neutestamentlichen Hermeneutik, 1816) had brought him into considerable repute, and he was appointed professor extraordinarius in the new university of Bonn in the spring of 1818; in the following autumn he became professor ordinarius.
Little is known of him except that he belonged to a family of Yemen, was hold in repute as a grammarian in his own country, wrote much poetry, compiled astronomical tables, devoted most of his life to the study of the ancient history and geography of Arabia, and died in prison at San'a in 945.
The town has long been in repute for its tanneries and its manufactures of leather.
Others, of more learning and better repute, were distinguished from the regular physicians chiefly by their use of chemical remedies.
The asceticism of Paulinus and his liberality towards the poor soon brought him into great repute; and while he was spending Christmas at Barcelona the people insisted on his being forthwith ordained to the priesthood.
Among the martens there is a weasel (itachi), which, though useful as a ratkiller, has the evil repute of being responsible for sudden and mysterious injuries to human beings; there is a river-otter (kawauso), and there is a sea-otter (rakko) which inhabits the northern seas and is highly valued for its beautiful pelt.
Arndt has always been held in very high repute by the German Pietists.
Moreover, the town has grown in repute as a health and holiday resort, its situation being one of the finest in the west of Scotland.
Its waters are in local repute.
The administration of justice in Uruguay has long been of bad repute.
Soden lozenges (Sodener Pastillen), condensed from the waters, are also in great repute.
The European style, on its introduction, encountered the most violent opposition, but now it alone is used by living authors of repute.
The church, which stands inland in the old village distinguished as Upper Dovercourt, is Early English and later; it formerly possessed a miraculous rood which became an object of pilgrimage of wide repute.
Rennes-les-Bains has mineral springs of repute.
Janus Cornarius, from whom this is quoted, laments, however, that the Arabians still reigned in most of the schools of medicine, and that the Italian and French authors of works called Practica were still in high repute.
His second wife, Madame de Montesson, whom he married secretly in 1773, was a clever woman and an authoress of some repute.
Belief in the evil eye or shadow is universal, and spirit-raisers, soothsayers and rain-doctors are in repute.
Wildungen is also a spa of repute.
Of various institutions for the education of women, Mount Holyoke (1837) at South Hadley, Smith College (1875) at Northampton, Wellesley College (1875) at Wellesley near Boston, Radcliffe College (1879) in connexion with Harvard at Cambridge and Simmons College (1899) at Boston, are of national repute.
In Tinghai a considerable business is carried on in carving and varnishing, and its silver wares are in high repute.
Andreas (1514-1559) was a physician of some repute, but through his influence with Albert of Brandenburg, last grandmaster of the Teutonic order, and first Protestant duke of Prussia, became an outstanding figure in the controversy associated with Andreas Osiander whose daughter he had married.
In the gardens is a chalybeate spring known as St Blaize's Well, which was in high repute before the Reformation.
There are considerable manufactures, notably agricultural machinery and buttons, and its beer has a great repute.
From the letters patent addressed to the bailiffs of Padstow demanding the survey and delivery of ships for foreign service, the appointment of a king's butler for the port, and the frequent recourse which was had to the king's courts for the settlement of disputes of shipping, Padstow appears to have been a port of considerable repute in the 14th century.
There is a considerable trade in varnish, and the saddle-trees and other leather goods produced here are in high repute.
This bishop also held him in high repute.
In the 5th and 6th centuries Gaza was held in high repute as a place of learning.
He was one of the first British New Testament students whose work was received with consideration by German scholars of repute.
Many species had a great repute as demulcents, febrifuges, astringents, tonics, purgatives and anthelmintics.
The waters, which contain over 45% of salt, iodine and sulphur, are among the strongest of their kind in Europe; and are of high repute, being annually visited by more than a thousand patients.
In his day Foucher enjoyed considerable repute as a keen opponent of Malebranche.
The colour is a pale golden-brown and the fur is held in great repute in South America for carriage rugs.