Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Infamous

means not allowed to speak or give witness in a court of justice. (Latin, in, negative fari, to speak; Greek, phemi or phami.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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