Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rumor \Ru"mor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rumored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Rumoring}.]
   To report by rumor; to tell.

         'T was rumored My father 'scaped from out the citadel.
                                                  --Dryden.