forenamed

English

Etymology

From Middle English forenamed, fornamed, fornemned, forenammd, equivalent to fore- +‎ named. Compare Dutch voornoemd (“aforementioned”), German vorgenannt, vorbenannt (“aforementioned”).

Adjective

forenamed (not comparable)

1. 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

forenamed

1. simple past and past participle of forename