new-name

English

Verb

new-name (third-person singular simple present new-names, present participle new-naming, simple past and past participle new-named)

1. Alternative form of newname
   • 1768, Edward Holdsworth, Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil, page 430:

     For this likewise must be taken into the account, that some remarkable accident, or the peculiar interest one district has above others, or the great share it bore in the revolution of the state, frequently gives occasion to new-name a country, or to extend the name of one district to its neighbouring provinces.

   • 1823, Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature - Volume 4, page 82:

     The ancients felt the same fastidiousness; and among the Romans, those who were called to the equestrian order, having low and vulgar names, were new-named on the occasion, lest the former one should disgrace the dignity.

   • 1987, Vernon Louis Parrington, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860, page 386:

     Adam in the garden, I am to new-name all the beasts of the field and all the gods in the sky.

   • 2004, Eva Maria Räpple, The Metaphor of the City in the Apocalypse of John, page 29:

     Old words do not reach across the new gulfs, and it is only in vision and oracle that we can chart the unknown and new-name the creatures.