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c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 216 ‘Horn child,’ qwad þe king, ‘wel brouke þou þi naming [c1300 Cambr. þin euening; a1350 Harl. nome ȝyng]’.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 94 Moralez ar made of grosse blode, Verucalez of melancolie..And þai ar nombred þus of similitude of þingez of which þai ar y-take & takeþ þair namyng [?c1425 Paris clepyng; L. nuncupationem].

1482 Rolls of Parl. VI. 204/2 Other Benefices of Cherchys, and namyng to the same.

1504–5 Will J. Esyngton in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) I. 641 [A priest] to have the same service, the same namyng, appointment and assignment..as is above expressed.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 123 Gloss. Neptune and Minerua stroue for the naming of the citie of Athens.

1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. G These beene Floras foes, scarce worth the naming.

1677 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (rev. ed.) 249 An infamous strumpet; not worth a naming the second time.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. v. 205 If it be true..that the Mind makes these Patterns, for sorting and naming of Things, I leave it to be considered, who makes the Boundaries of the Sort, or Species.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 52 They having had all along the naming of the weigh~master.

1797 J. D. Burk Bunker-Hill iv. iii. 47 At naming her, my wounds will bleed afresh.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. i. 31/2 Poetry itself is no other, if thou consider it, than a right Naming.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 276 Even in the infant the latent power of naming is almost immediately observable.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxxvii. 455 If I'd had the naming of you I should have called you Maria of the Soapsuds.

1977 Chem. in Brit. 13 5/3 To Frankland belongs the honour of not only naming but also of founding this important branch of chemistry.

1997 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. a 8/5 They are all awaiting Mr. Bowles's decision and the naming of his successor.

1859 H. Barnard Pestalozzi & Pestalozzianism 224 Distinguishing and naming the parts of common objects, and stating their uses.]

1946 H. Reed Map of Verona 22 To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

1967 Listener 15 June 782/2 The Carnegie Report..begins with a very plain ‘naming of parts’, which is vital if the different forms of television are to be easily distinguished.

1979 Nature 25 Jan. 332/1 Instead there are reams of description, naming of the parts.

1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) iv. 27 It was an inventory of the city, a naming of parts.

1990 Sunday Tel. 21 Jan. 2/2 After the naming and shaming of Lord Dervaird, four other judges..became the subject of more homosexual gossip, apparently unfounded.

1996 Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 Sept. 6 Curfews. Electronic tags. And now, courtesy of that Houdini of the Home Office Michael Howard, the ‘naming and shaming’ of young offenders.

1999 Guardian 22 June i. 25/1 This would continue the government's policy of ‘naming and shaming’ to encourage companies to be greener without legislation.

1886 G. S. Conover in Last Rite of Adoption into Confederacy of Iroquois 4 (title) The naming ceremonies and rites of adoption by the Seneca Indians.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female xiii. 267 The child..is essentially sexless until its naming ceremony at one hundred and ten days.

1990 Lifeboat (RNLI) Spring 239/1 On a ‘dreich’ day with ominous forecasts of storm force winds,..it was appropriate that the naming ceremony of Macduff's Atlantic 21 should be held in the shelter of the fishmarket.

1824 J. C. Loudon Green-house Compan. i. 204 Each being distinguished by its name written on a small naming-stick.