Defn: To make infamous; to defame. [R.] Coleridge.
INFAMOUS
In"fa*mous, a. Etym: [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L. infamis. See
Infamy.]
1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser.
2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. Macaulay.
3. (Law)
Defn: Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.
Syn. — Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious.
INFAMOUSLY
In"fa*mous*ly, adv.
Defn: In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully;
shamefully.
The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously
monopolized and huckstered. Burke.