Surnamed

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of surname form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Bearing a surname. not-comparable

    "It may have been that this strange yearning of Pierre for a sister, had part of its origin in that still stranger feeling of loneliness he sometimes experienced, as not only the solitary head of his family, but the only surnamed male Glendinning extant."

Example

More examples

"And Jacob came to Luza, which is in the land of Canaan, surnamed Bethel: he and all the people that were with him."

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