Christian-names

Verb

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

1. (ditransitive, rare, transitive) To give (a first name) to (someone).
   • So said our immortal [Horatio] Nelson also, after whom one of Admiral [George] Young’s grandsons has been Christian-named Horatio.1810 August, “Additions and Corrections in former Numbers”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume LXXX, London: […] J[ohn] Nichols and Son, […], page 188, column 2
2. (rare, transitive) To address (someone) by first name.
   • Mrs. Haggistoun, Colonel Haggistoun’s widow, a relation of Lord Binkie, and always talking of him, struck the dear unsophisticated girls as rather haughty, and too much inclined to talk about her great relations: but Rhoda was everything they could wish—the frankest, kindest, most agreeable...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 176

   Synonyms:

   first-name