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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
above-mentioned
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I would argue that virtually every successful electric guitar since 1958 has owed something to one or more of the above-mentioned instruments.
▪ On the evidence of the first episode, shown on September 4, Les Mise rables meets all the above-mentioned criteria.
▪ Students were asked to complete, anonymously, after each course, a three-page questionnaire dealing with the above-mentioned aspects.
▪ The above-mentioned species are all suitable for the heated tank, but their supplies are irregular.
▪ The founder and president of the organization from 1918 to 1948 was the above-mentioned Henry Hamilton Beamish.
▪ This is further complicated by the above-mentioned color changes that occur with growth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Above-mentioned

Above-mentioned \A*bove"-men`tioned\, Above-named \A*bove"-named`\, a. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid; mentioned or named earlier in the same text (in written documents).

Wiktionary
above-mentioned

a. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

WordNet
above-mentioned

adj. mentioned or named earlier in the same text [syn: above-named]

Usage examples of "above-mentioned".

Opheltin is the place, and altar of the Ophite God above-mentioned: and Archemorus was undoubtedly the antient name of the neighbouring town, or city.

Oskar, above-mentioned, was the principal taker of these drums, because he was a drummer by profession and was neither able nor willing to live without a drum.

And as for Lord Boanerges, he spent the morning on which the above-mentioned conversation took place in teaching Miss Dunstable to blow soap-bubbles on scientific principles.

His ample coat, too, I see, with its broad flaps and many buttons and generous cuffs, and beneath it the long, still more copiously buttoned waistcoat, arching in front of the fine crescentic, almost semi-lunar Falstaffian prominence, involving no less than a dozen of the above-mentioned buttons, and the strong legs with their sturdy calves, fitting columns of support to the massive body and solid, capacious brain enthroned over it.

It was now about a fortnight since this conquest, when Jones paid the above-mentioned visit to his mistress, at a time when she and Square were in bed together.

We are not, therefore, ashamed to say, that our heroine now pursued the dictates of the above-mentioned right honourable philosopher.

The strong pendant festoons made safe and commodious swings, which some of our party enjoyed, despite the sublime temperament above-mentioned.

By these means, we doubt not but our reader may be rendered desirous to read on for ever, as the great person just above-mentioned is supposed to have made some persons eat.

And finally, I saw among the semi-wild cattle and horses in Transbaikalia, among the wild ruminants everywhere, the squirrels, and so on, that when animals have to struggle against scarcity of food, in consequence of one of the above-mentioned causes, the whole of that portion of the species which is affected by the calamity, comes out of the ordeal so much impoverished in vigour and health, that no progressive evolution of the species can be based upon such periods of keen competition.

After the above-mentioned study of willows by the brook, after Amsel had built and sold a scarecrow featuring the milk-drinking eels motif, he devised a model revealing on the one hand the proportions of a three headed willow tree and on the other hand commemorating the spoon-swinging and teeth-grinding Grandmother Matern.

Eventually, this system could be used as a means of total surveillance over every citizen, if the above-mentioned regime of strict enforcement of copyright and patent law were to be instituted.

In the first place, in curious proof of the fact that the above-mentioned law is still in force, I proceed to lay before you a circumstance that happened within the last two years.

In the above-mentioned TV program, John Brunner mentioned a scale for assessing the value judgment in fiction, worked out by an American sociologist.