Meaning of new-name | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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