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forename

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːneɪm/ / /ˈfɔɹneɪm/

noun

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.

  1. A name that precedes the surname.

verb

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.

  1. To assign (someone) a first name.

    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.

  2. Synonym of prenominate.

    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.

  3. To appoint in advance.

    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 […]