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English
Adjective
prænominal (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of praenominal.
1825, “Ungentle Mementos”, in The Oriental Herald, and Journal of General Literature, volume V, London: Sandford Arnot, page 416:The name of Shakespeare perisheth not; but let oblivion eliminate the prænominal William.
1834, A History of Europe, During the Middle Ages (The Cabinet Cyclopædia), volume IV, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, ; and John Taylor, , page 130:Thus, in nouns, we have the various distinctions of quality, comparison, gender, number, figure, case; of prænomen, nomen, cognomen, agnomen; of appellative and proper; of corporeal, incorporeal, radical, derivative, compositive, denominative, diminutive, homonymous, synonymous; with others, adjectival or prænominal, interminable as those of the ancient grammarians.
1847 December, John G Saxe, “A New Rape of the Lock: or Captain Jones’ Misadventure”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXX, number 6, New York, N.Y.: John Allen, stanza XXII, page 496:The patronymical name of the maid / Was so completely overlaid / With a long prænominal cover, / That if each additional proper noun / Was laid, with additional emphasis, down, / Miss Susan was ‘done uncommonly Brown,’ / The moment her christ’ning was over!