prenam1nate

t. [PRENOMINATE, α.] Το name beforehand or previously; to forename; to tell by name beforehand. "To prenominate in nice conjecture, Where thou wilt hit me dead." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , iv. 5. prē-năm-I-nate, adj . [Lat. præno min at us , pa. par. of prænomino: præ=before, and nomino =to name (q. v.).] Named beforehand; forenamed. (Shakesp.: Hamlet , ii. 1.) prē-năm-i-nā-tion, s . [Pref. pre- , and English nomination (q.v.).] The privilege, right, or state of being named first. "The watery productions should have the prenomination." Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. ii., ch. xxiv. *pre-nos-tic, *pre-nos-tike, s. [Latin præ before, and nosco to know.] A prognostic, an omen, an augury. "He saith for such a prenostike Most of an hounde was to him like." IMG:content-1479.png:[blocks in formation] "This blind ignorance of that age thus aboue pre noted."- Fox : Martyrs , p. 120. pre-nō-tion, *præ-nō-tion, subst [Pref. pre-, and Eng. notion (q. v.); Fr. prénotion .] A notion or idea which precedes something else; a previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. *prěn-sā-tion, s. [Latin prensatio , from pren sat us , pa. par. of prenso ( prehenso ), intens of prendo =to take, to seize.] The act of seizing with vio lence. ( Barrow : Pope's Supremacy )