? Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To surname, to nickname.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 442. The Scots in like manner bynamed a parliament … and called the same a running parliament.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. 20. Edward, by-named (not of his colour, but of his dreaded acts in battle) the Black Prince.
1632. Brome, Novella, Dram. Pers., Paulo, By-named Burgio.
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
