Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + NAME v.] trans. a. To name or mention beforehand. b. To give a name to beforehand.
1610. Healey, St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, V. xvi. 220. The Romaine Empire had that glorious increase, not onely to bee a fit guerdon to the vertues of such worthies as wee fore-named, but also that the cittizens of heauen in their pilgrimages vpon earth, might obserue those examples with a sober diligence.
a. 1633. Austin, Medit. (1635), 53.
| Oh! that Hee once, the Heavens would reave, | |
| And so come downe. For, Prophets tell, | |
| Behold a Virgin shall conceave, | |
| A Sonne, fore-nam’d Emmanuel, | |
| Who shall descend, with us to dwell. |
Hence Forenamed ppl. a., named or mentioned before: fore-cited.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xiii. 46. Bothe togidre of one assente, wente the two sustres fore named, to the synagoges and temples.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 317.
| Quhilk bruther wes to this foirnamit king, | |
| Wes crownit than in Scotland for to ring. |
1628. T. Spencer, Logick, 224. The forenamed Axiomes are compounded of simple axiomes.
1695. Bp. Patrick, Comm. Gen., 259. The three fore-named Families were near Neighbours to Abram; who, it is likely, farmed (as we now speak) some Ground of them: ans so entred into a League of Mutual Defence, having the same Interest.
1737. Whiston, Josephus’ Antiq., VIII. xi. § 1. The woman went hastily away with a disordered mind, and greatly grieved at the death of the fore-named child.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 30. Flour which is mixed with the fore-named adulterations.
absol. or ellipt.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. i. 2. Besides the two forenamed there is found a thirde kinde.
1655. Fuller, The Church-History of Britain, II. i. § 7. Besides the fore-named, they had Neptune, to whom in their abominable Decimations, they sacrificed every tenth Captive, whom they had taken in War.
