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For(e)namit, Foirnamit, a. and n. Also: forenamyt; foirnameit, -namet, -named; fornamyt, -nammyt, -naymit, -nameit, -namet. [Late ME. fore named (1490). Cf. Aforenamit.]
1. Previously mentioned by name.(a) 1429 Cal. Chart. MS. (Reg. H.) Suppl. 7 Feb.
Thir fornamyte landis 1506 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 162.
The fornamyt twa merkis 1513 Doug. ix. i. 13.
This ilk fornamyt maid 1553 Lanark B. Rec. 22.
The fornamit balyeis 1581 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 40.
The fornamet thrie persones 1633 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 150.
Within the fornameit old howse 1653 Peebles B. Rec. II. 12.
The fornameit persones(b) 1456 Hay I. 2/16.
The forenamyt doctour Ib. 293/14.
The forenamyt digniteis 1499 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 625.
The forenamyt landis(c) 1535 Stewart 29647.
Bruther … to this foirnamit king 1581 Grant Chart. 104.
The … ward and releif of the foirnamit landis 1598 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 376.
The cure of the foirnamet kirks 1617 Urie Baron Ct. 23.
To pay the foirnameit sowme 1644 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 16.
The foirnamit John Jaffray 1661 St. A. Baxter Bks. 128.
The foirnameit persones
b. Placed after the noun. 1451 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. vi. 26.
Al thir landis for-nammyt 1456 Hay I. 2/18.
The principale parties of the buke fore-namyt 1530 Lennox Mun. 239.
The said Schir James and thair ayris fornaymit 1550 Reg. Cupar A. II. 75.
The … land and toft fornamyt
2. n. A previously named person. 1647 Ayr Charters 166.
Substituand the said Johne M'Kadam and his forenamites in my full right
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