new name

English

Verb

new name (third-person singular simple present new names, present participle new naming, simple past and past participle new named)

Alternative form of newname
- 1725, The New-England Courant:
  It seems that she loaded at Santa Cruz, in Barbary, with Wax, Copper, fine Matts, &c. with which she sailed for Marseilles, but the Night after they put to sea, the Crew rose, killed the Capt. Super-Cargo, Mate, Surgeon, &c. and then new named the Ship, calling her the Revenge.
- 1810, Robert Southey, chapter XI, in History of Brazil, 1st part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 347:
  When [Juan Ortiz de] Zarate left the Plata he thought himself entitled to new name that river, and ordered that it should from thenceforth be called Vizcaya, the Biscay, he himself being a Biscayan.
- 1821, Edmond Malone, William Shakespeare, Poems and Plays, volume III, page 230:
  The King and the Subject, June 5, 1638. Acted by the same company. This title, Sir Henry Herbert says, was changed. I suspect it was new named The Tyrant. The play is lost.