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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repute \Re*pute"\ (r?-p?t"), verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repute \Re*pute"\, noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repute
noun: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: {reputation}] [ant: {disrepute}]
verb: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: {think of}, {regard as}, {look upon}, {look on}, {esteem}, {take to be}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "repute": ascendancy, assume, authority, be afraid, believe, celebrity, character, charisma, charm, clout, conceive, conclude, consequence, consider, control, credit, custom, daresay, deduce, deem, dignity, distinction, divine, dominance, domination, dream, eclat, effect, eminence, enchantment, esteem, expect, fame, fancy, favor, feel, force, gather, glory, good feeling, good name, goodwill, grant, greatness, hold, honor, imagine, importance, incidental power, infer, influence, influentiality, insinuation, leadership, let, let be, leverage, magnetism, mastery, memorability, moment, name, notability, noteworthiness, notoriety, opine, patronage, personality, persuasion, potency, power, predominance, prefigure, preponderance, pressure, prestige, presume, presuppose, presurmise, prominence, provisionally accept, purchase, reckon, reign, remarkableness, renown, rep, report, reputation, rule, salience, say, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, suppose, supremacy, surmise, suspect, sway, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, trade, understand, upper hand, weight, whip hand
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