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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
new name en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative 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: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: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:
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