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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
name .
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Examples
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Years Conversation; blame all my feign'd Indifferency and forc'd Coldness towards him; fancy'd he thought on me in his Agony, and nam'd me with his dying Breath; believe I saw his much − griev'd Parents cursing me as the
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To whom I reply'd, with a blunt Indignation, That they ought not to be nam'd together: And so, in an unthinking, unmannerly Way, reproach'd the
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To which she reply'd, That a Person of his Grandeur who was in the Coach, ought not to be nam'd with one of her mean Condition: Nevertheless, said she, you appearing to be a Gentlewoman of Prudence and Vertue, I will tell you my Story, without the least Disguise.
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Years Conversation; blame all my feign'd Indifferency and forc'd Coldness towards him; fancy'd he thought on me in his Agony, and nam'd me with his dying Breath; believe I saw his much − griev'd Parents cursing me as the
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Gen. Washington twice nam'd his Estate after the honest & popular Admiral Vernon, brought low in the end by Sir Robert; the Admiral being the one Man Sir Robert had known who did not, indeed, have a Price.
I call Barack Obama to account for picking another bland, midwestern pretty boy. Ann Althouse 2008
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A certain Widow Lady, nam'd Libidinia, living near this Place, my intimate Friend, and the Confident of my Love, gave me divers little discreet Hints of his Inconstancy, which I must have understood perfectly if my Reason had not been rock'd asleep with a full Perswasion of his
Exilius 2008
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Character of any Swain or Lass in the first and second Pastoral, that must be their Character in all the rest, if they are nam'd or introduc'd, tho 'never so slightly.
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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That word had ne're bin nam'd had all bin D'Ambois.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Not to be nam'd, that but to forme one thought, 175
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Well was't thou nam'd, fair bark, whose recent doom
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur
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