Obs. rare1. [a. F. célèbre, or ad. L. celeber, -brem.] Well-known, public.

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1539.  Hen. VIII., Lett. to Wyatt, in Halliwell, Lett. Kings Eng. (1848), I. 383 (R.). Those barking preachers their slaunderously defaming us in so celébre a place.

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