aforenamed

Named earlier herein

Aforenamed means previously named or mentioned in a document or text.

The word belongs to legal and formal writing, where precision about references matters: The aforenamed parties agree to the following terms.

Like aforesaid and aforementioned, it sounds stiff in ordinary speech.

formal

aforementioned

Previously mentioned in text

preceding · prior · previous · earlier · antecedent · hereinbefore · heretofore · said · such · designated

legal

aforementioned

Previously mentioned in text

plaintiff · defendant · party · witness · testator · signatory · claimant · appellant · respondent · litigant

documentation

cited

Mentioned as evidence

recorded · registered · logged · archived · filed · listed · enumerated · inventoried · chronicled · noted

Opposites
sequential reference in discourse

aforenamedfollowing

Coming after another

forthcoming · unnamed · unmentioned · anonymous · unidentified

Family

afore, name, named, names, naming, nameless, namely, namesake, rename

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