Repute vs Calculate - What's the difference?
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Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
* Bible, Job xviii. 3
* Shakespeare
(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
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, title= To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
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To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
* Archbishop Tillotson
Repute is a related term of calculate.
As verbs the difference between repute and calculate
is that repute is while calculate is (mathematics) to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.repute
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(reput)- Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
- The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.
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(calculat)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated , might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- A cunning man did calculate my birth.
- [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.