ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Performed with customary rites.
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., V. i. ad. fin. Our celebrated rites of marriage.
2. Much talked about, famed, renowned.
1665–9. Boyle, Occas. Refl. (1675), Ded. Those Celebrated Ladies … taught their Children to Sway those Rulers of the World.
1717. Lady M. W. Montague, Lett., II. xlvi. 33. This is a dull imperfect description of this celebrated building.
1827. Southey, Inscript., xliii. In many a celebrated fight With Rodney [he] had his part.
1855. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, xviii. (1860), § 768. Neither India, nor the East coasts of Africa … are celebrated for their fish.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., Eloquence, Wks. (Bohn), III. 30. Who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
Hence † Celebratedness.
1731–6. in Bailey.
1775. in Ash.
