Mentioned or called by name before; previously named or referred to.
From 'afore' (before) plus 'named.' This archaic legal and formal term appears frequently in older documents where repetitive reference to parties required a way to invoke their earlier mention.
Medieval and Early Modern contracts use 'aforenamed' constantly—reading them, you realize it was a memory aid before everyone had access to copies of documents; 'aforenamed merchant' meant 'remember that merchant we mentioned three pages ago.'
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