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forenamed

American  
[fawr-naymd, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˈneɪmd, ˈfoʊr- /

adjective

  1. named before; mentioned before in the same writing or speech; aforementioned.


forenamed British  
/ ˈfɔːˌneɪmd /

adjective

  1. (prenominal) named or mentioned previously; aforesaid

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of forenamed

1150–1200; Middle English. See fore-, named ( def. )


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Reserued always vnto the forenamed Master generall and his subiects all right and remedie any way requisite or competent vnto them by meanes of the obligations aforesaid.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

While we stayed here all the forenamed English ships sailed hence; the 2 Bengal ships excepted.

From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier

There, on the nonce, the forenamed Baden prince Was joined to Stephanie Beauharnais, her Who stands as daughter to the man we wait, Some say as more.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

But as things stand at present, as, in fact, the forenamed rights are to-day situated, women have not found comprehension of the dual life.

From With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

Let be!—But what is this— A moan?—all frailly floating from the east To usward, even from the forenamed isle?...

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

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