namedadj.n.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 1 Paralip. xi. 24 Þese þingis dide bananyas þe sone of Joiade, þat was among þe þre stronge most named [L. nominatissimus] & among þe þretti þe firste.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 5 The hors that in the eire is fleyng—It is the named Pegasus truly.

a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 64 Y mervaile þat þe priue þefe purseuethe the named [a1460 anon. tr. open] theef.

?c1535 L. Cox Arte Rhethorycke (new ed.) sig. Bv^v The excellent & moste hyghly named philosopher Plato.

1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow Prol. l. 8 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 280 Quhen..gentillmen of he genolegye..Ar assemblit..With namit folkis of he nobilite.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 433 (MED) If þese now bifore named persoones hadden lyued so long.

1470 Indenture in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 420 The seid named executours..may not now take vpon them the administracion.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 25 This mater of sedition afore namit.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 183 The two valiant aforenamed woorthie captaines.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. viii. 239 The named remedies will availe nothing, because the Imposthumation is too sturdy for them.

1788 T. Jefferson Jrnl. 22 Apr. in Papers (1956) XIII. 32 The proprietors beforenamed, whose named are established buy of the poorer ones the right to cull their vineyards.

1847 Infantry Man. (1854) 89 The named file moves..on.

1906 Alaska Rep. 2 475 Plaintiff then sought to introduce testimony of adultery committed by the defendant..with a named co-respondent.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 304/1 The goods may be deliverable by the terms of the bill of lading to a named consignee, and to him only.

1994 Daily Tel. 8 Sept. 6/1 It calls on the Government to ensure that every patient with severe mental illness should have a care manager to plan their care and a named key worker to ensure it is carried out.

1532 Confutacyon Tyndales Answere in T. More Wks. (1557) 404 The captaynes of these pestilent heresies..haue geuen you warning..by theyr owne dedes in their named wedlocke.

1567 J. Rastell (title) A brief shew of the false wares packed together in the named Apology of the Church of England.

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. i. §12 a Named contracts, be those which have a cause by law defined, and they are called by proper names.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxxii. 155 Nostril whale.—Another instance of a curiously named whale.

1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xii. 102 There are many local commercial stocks of the common English winter bean,..but there are no named varieties which can be regarded as superior.

1990 Pract. Householder Apr. 18/3 If you need to buy additional hand tools always buy a good quality named brand.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. ii. 22 The famed and named go; the nameless, if they have an accuser.

1837 T. Campbell Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 186 Accursed..If a coward there be that would slacken, Till we've..shown ourselves worth Being sprung from the named for the godlike of earth.

1890 H. D. Traill Sat. Songs 20 When the Chair itself takes by-and-bye To calling names, thou, as the named retire, May'st well exclaim, ‘And doth this satisfy?’

1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 95 Familiarly reminiscent of those in the other time, the named, the numbered or the caricatured, who had flourished or failed, disappeared or arrived.

1923 R. Frost New Hampsh. 74 Still more unfettered, They left the named And spoke of the lettered, The sigmas and taus Of constellations.

1974 D. M. Jones Sleeping Lord & other Fragments 65 The men of proud spirit and the men of mean spirit, the named and the unnamed of the Island.

1996 A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces i. 167 There were a few..who never confused objects and humans, who knew the difference between naming and the named.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 221 Cicero speaks namedly of the Acrostichis.