forenaming

Verb

forename (third-person singular simple present forenames, present participle forenaming, simple past and past participle forenamed)

1. To assign (someone) a first name.
   • He forenamed him Ishmael, and assigns as a reason, his own attention to her present distress.1798 August, Monitor, “Sacred Biography”, in The Christian Magazine: Or, Evangelical Repository, volume 2, number 18, page 371
2. Synonym of prenominate.
   • This forenaming of Cyrus is, indeed, extraordinary, and calculated to excite attention.1880, The Methodist Magazine, page 70

   Synonyms:

   prenominate

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...1839, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, page 41

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