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praenominare

praenominare [CL] 1 to provide (a person) with a name, title, or nickname. b to name (a place). Alexander ‥ extiterat canonicus, cognomen habens de Lewes ~atus magister, major habitus in quadrivio, sed minor repertus in evangelio Ad. Eyns. Hug. II 11; Alienora a Merlino aquila rupti federis est ~ata Meaux I 131.  b 956 illo in loco qui a rurigenis ~atur æt Dyddanhame CS 927; s871 in loco Basingon ~ato Æthelw. IV 2. 2 to name beforehand. nomen sibi impositum Jesus, quod prius per angelum fuit ~atus [v. l. ~atum] Eul. Hist. I 72. 3 to mention beforehand; b (p. ppl. as adj.) aforementioned. c (as sb. m.) aforementioned person. d (as sb. n.) aforementioned thing. desiderato puero, quem ~avimus ‥ occurrerant H. Bos. Thom. IV 29; duo ‥ quos ~avimus ‥ nominarunt Boso V. Pont. 397.  b 634 siquis ‥ ~atae ecclesie concessis ‥ contenderit reniti (Lit. Papae) Conc. I 36b; a797 memor esto ‥ patris Benedicti ‥ et successoris ejus Ceolfridi. ‥ ~atis patribus ‥ assimilari ‥ stude Alcuin Ep. 67; c850 electus Lundoniensis æcclesiæ gubernaculaque pontificatus ~atæ æcclesiæ ‥ suscipiens CS 498; de his iiij ~atis maneriis DB I 52vb; 1217 donec nos ad quartum decimum annum etatis nostre ‥ pervenerimus, et cum ad etatem ~atam pervenerimus Pat 26; 1418 ~atis nunciis nostris ‥ dare velitis ‥ opem Bekynton II 121.  c 1239 idem quoque accidet si quisquam ~atorum repellat episcopum vestrum ab ordinum ‥ celebratione Gros. Ep. 73 p. 236.  d nisi in ~atis Alcuin Gram. 894D; quisquis prefate ecclesie de ~atis abstulerit Ord. Vit. IV 16 p. 283. 4 to fix, determine in advance. a941 si ‥ dies praenaminatus neglegatur emendet CS 648; 1223 usque ad terminum ~atum Ch. Chester 299. 4 (p ppl. as adj.) very renowned, celebrated. ~issimi ‥ Theodori ‥ thurificatio Gosc. Transl. Aug. 41C.

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