forenamed
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English forenamed, fornamed, fornemned, forenammd, equivalent to fore- + named. Compare Dutch voornoemd (“aforementioned”), German vorgenannt, vorbenannt (“aforementioned”).
Adjective edit
forenamed (not comparable)
- previously named; aforementioned
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
Verb edit
forenamed
- simple past and past participle of forename