renamev.

1579 J. Frampton tr. M. Polo Most Noble & Famous Trauels sig. **^v The first or lower India is renamed Caysar, and these do extend towards the East, from the Riuer India, vnto..Cambaya.

1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere 66 [Philippi] afterwards renamed from Philip..its Reedifier.

1790 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. I. xxii. 428 I..re-named her Narina, which in the Hottentot language signifies a flower.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 354 The features of the district were renamed.

1897 Atlantic Monthly 79 36 Then must we have a new vocabulary and re-name the professions.

1963 R. A. Sandison in R. Crocket et al. Hallucinogenic Drugs 34 This total experience of the unconscious..has led to a feeling that the hallucinogenic drugs should be renamed the psycholytic drugs.

1997 New Yorker 2 June 51/1 Mobutu..claimed the Adamic power of renaming all of his subjects.

2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old (2008) iv. 77 So low has been the status of ‘maintenance engineering’ that attempts were made, with some success, to rename it ‘terotechnology’.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 62 As for this Doctors other fantastical dream,..it is scarcely worth re-naming, much less answering to.

1843 H. C. Watson in W. J. Hooker London Jrnl. Bot. II. 615 They can acquire a sort of spurious claim to put the abbreviation of their own names along with those of the re-named plants.

1950 Lancet 23 Sept. 409/1 More new, or renamed, ‘factors’ are on the way, like ‘pro-accelerin’ and ‘pro-convertin’.

2003 Budget Living Apr.–May 56/1 Hasbro's real genius..came in hiring Marvel Comics to spin a story around these renamed Transformers.