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▪ I. forename, n.|ˈfɔəneɪm|
[f. fore- prefix + name.]
A person's first or ‘Christian’ name; in Rom. Ant. = prænomen.
1533Cath. Parr tr. Erasm. Comm. Crede 74 The name and the forename of Pylate. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 320 His sonne, carrying the same fore-name [Bartholomew]. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 753 It was provided by an Edict, that none of that family should have the forename of Marcus. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Crit. Hist. 99 The Ancient Roman Women had a Fore-name, or a Christen-Name besides their Sir Name. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 34 The counsellor whose name is Reason, whose forename is Interest. 1883Academy 15 Dec. 394 Mary Martha Brooke, whose twofold fore-name is intended to symbolise her character.
transf.1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 519 This place [Cole Ouerton] hath a Cole prefixed for the fore name.
▪ II. † ˈforename, v. Obs.
[f. fore- prefix + name v.]
trans. a. To name or mention beforehand. b. To give a name to beforehand.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God v. xvi. (1620) 209 The vertues of such worthies as we forenamed. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 53 Behold a Virgin shall conceave A Sonne, fore nam'd Emmanuel.
Hence ˈforenamed ppl. a., named or mentioned before; fore-cited.
1490Caxton Eneydos xiii. 47 The two sustres fore named. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 317 This foirnamit king. 1628T. Spencer Logick 224 The forenamed Axiomes are compounded of simple axiomes. 1737Whiston Josephus' Antiq. viii. xi. §1 The woman..grieved at the death of the fore-named child. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 30 Flour which is mixed with the fore-named adulterations.
absol. or ellipt.1578Lyte Dodoens i. i. 2 Besides the two forenamed there is found a thirde kinde. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. i. §7 Besides the fore-named, they had Neptune. |