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reputed

The meaning of the word purported is reputed.

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antidotea remedy to counteract the effects of poison
pulmonaryof, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs
timbrethe quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as
turmoila state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion
condimentssomething used to enhance the flavor of food
forthcomingbeing about to appear or to be produced or made available
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
monotonytedious sameness
rendto remove from place by violence : wrest
misnomerthe misnaming of a person in a legal instrument