new name

present singular third person new names · participle present new naming · participle past new named · past new named

1. alternativeAlternative form of newname.

   The King and the Subject, June 5, 1638. Acted by the same company. This title, Sir Henry Herbert says, was changed. I suspect it was new named The Tyrant. The play is lost.

   1821, Edmond Malone, William Shakespeare, Poems and Plays, volume III, page 230

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   It seems that she loaded at Santa Cruz, in Barbary, with Wax, Copper, fine Matts, &c. with which she sailed for Marseilles, but the Night after they put to sea, the Crew rose, killed the Capt. Super-Cargo, Mate, Surgeon, &c. and then new named the Ship, calling her the Revenge.

   1725, The New-England Courant

   When [Juan Ortiz de] Zarate left the Plata he thought himself entitled to new name that river, and ordered that it should from thenceforth be called Vizcaya, the Biscay, he himself being a Biscayan.

   1810, Robert Southey, chapter XI, in History of Brazil, 1st part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 347