forename
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Germanic *namô
Proto-West Germanic *namō
Old English nama
Middle English name
English name
English forename
From fore- + name.
Inflected forms:
form: forenames
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forenames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forenaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forenamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forenamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A name that precedes the surname.
pos: noun
gloss: To assign (someone) a first name.
pos: verb
examples: He forenamed him Ishmael, and assigns as a reason, his own attention to her present distress.
It may be noted that Le Verrier subsequently suggested another ad hoc hypothesis , namely , that the irregularities in the orbit of Mercury were due to an interior planet, which he forenamed Vulcan.
Implicit in the record of the resolution of a dispute in the manorial court of Werrington in 1368 are issues relating to the pattern of forenaming amongst the lower social groups of medieval England, as well, perhaps, as those concerning law and love and arbitration in inter-peasant conflict.
The child was named Pujari Venkata Guru Siva Prasad. the boy was forenamed Pujari to serve as a reminder to the people that he will look after the temple of Gurappa Swami and perform Devara.
gloss: Synonym of prenominate.
pos: verb
examples: This forenaming of Cyrus is, indeed, extraordinary, and calculated to excite attention.
A second Parcell of meadow which wee forenamed, sould unto the sayd John Greenland , containing Three Akers, by estimation more or less: Is lying and scituate alsoe on mistike syde, By and nere the South River , It is Bounded by a part of the South River where it divides, and it is Bounded Northwest by the Lands of Richard Dexters, alsoe it is Bounded North Easte by the Lands of Richard Cooke.
So, now, Dickens turned to another idea prefigured in his notebook — a novel which might have been called Time (as he proposed) instead of A Tale of Two Cities (as it became), and which has as a central character the person he forenamed in his notes as "Memory Carton.”
Before His birth, He was forenamed, “a man of sorrows” (Isaiah 53:3).
gloss: To appoint in advance.
pos: verb
examples: Now, the Central Junta having to deceive the people, affirmed that Sir Arthur Wellesley had retreated to the frontiers of Portugal at the very moement when the French might have been driven to the Pyrenees, came very soon to believe this, their own absurd calumny, and resolved to send the army at La Carolina headlong against Madrid: nay, such was their pitch of confidence, that forenaming the civil and military authorities, they arranged a provisionary system for the future administration of the capital, with a care, that they denied to the army which was to put them in possession.
CAP provides for the forenaming of approved mortgagees in small communities […]
A committee was forenamed consisting of Messrs: G W Naylor, W Lister, Jno McDonald, Geo Barraclough, M Worsley, Jos Blacker, R H Morley and Heap with Mr Wood as secretary.
Antonyms: aftername
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