Meaning of Christian-nameless | Babel Free

Definitions

Without a Christian name.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“To me, once, inspecting a well-chosen shelf of medical works in several languages, an advanced surgeon’s library in themselves—possibly purchased en bloc, I thought, from some dead professor’s widow—he had remarked pleasantly, as a fitting pleasantry for the addressee, that “John’s is my nom du^([sic]) guerre,—in the war of life, you know, Doctor.” Enough, however, to show that as Christian-nameless John’s he was known to all in Beedley, aye to the very end, saving myself.”

“I’m caught at last! I can’t hold out any longer! / When first I saw you, I knew what it would be. / For fifteen months I kept my head. But see, / I’m on my knees to you. You are the stronger. / For all your slenderness of limb and feature / You’ve mastered me—you Christian-nameless creature!”

“At Christmas 1548/9, ‘ffelsteade’, Christian-nameless as ever, made ‘ix globes with all thinges necessarie ffor theyr makyng at xvjᵈ the pece’ for the Court Revels, for which he was paid 12s.”

“The mysteriously Christian-nameless PJ Ellis from Swindon has a question and another neat little project for improving your ST.”

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