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Above-named

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).

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above-named

a. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

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above-named

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

Usage examples of "above-named".

Although hardly one shell, crab or fish is common to the above-named three approximate faunas of Eastern and Western America and the eastern Pacific islands, yet many fish range from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean, and many shells are common to the eastern islands of the Pacific and the eastern shores of Africa, on almost exactly opposite meridians of longitude.

For a council was called to settle what was best and most expedient to be done, in order to repel such frequent and fatal irruptions and plunderings of the above-named nations.

Moreover, the above-named Owen Edwards was the rector of Llanfair until his death which took place in 1711.