Aforesaid

Definition: Aforesaid

Aforesaid

Adjective

1. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has denied the charges".

Date "aforesaid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Aforesaid

Synonyms: aforementioned(a) (adj), aforesaid(a) (adj), said(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Precedence	Adjective: preceding; Verb: precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior; before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory.
Priority	Adjective: prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory; (precursory).
Repetition	Monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed; above-mentioned, above-said; habitual; another.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Aforesaid

English words defined with "aforesaid": Foresaid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "aforesaid": HURST. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Aforesaid Bates : a play (reference) The aforesaid child : a wartime childhood (reference) The treasure ship ; Rory aforesaid ; The happy war : three plays (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	If, however, the heir of any one of the aforesaid has been under age and in wardship, let him have his inheritance without relief and without fine when he comes of age. (reference)
The Emancipation Proclamation	1862	And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. (Abraham Lincoln)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Germany will directly compensate her nationals who may have been dispossessed by the aforesaid liquidations. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Aforesaid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 54.29% of the time. "Aforesaid" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	54.29%	38	55,818
Lexical Verb (past participle)	40%	28	65,706
Lexical Verb (past tense)	5.71%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	70	N/A

Expression using "aforesaid": as aforesaid. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "aforesaid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		për të cilin u fol, i lartpërmendur (above, above mentioned, aforecited, aforementioned, aforenamed). (various references)

Arabic		‏مذكور آنفا (above mentioned, aforementioned, mentioned). (various references)

Bulgarian		гореказан, гореизложен. (various references)

Chinese		上述 (Above-mentioned, Aforementioned). (various references)

Czech		výše uvedený (above mentioned, foregoing). (various references)

Dutch		voornoemd (aforementioned), voormeld (aforementioned), voorgenoemd (aforementioned), voorgemeld (aforementioned), eerdergenoemd (aforementioned). (various references)

Farsi		فوق الذکر, مذبور. (various references)

Finnish		edellämainittu (above-mentioned, mentioned above). (various references)

French		susnommé (aforementioned), susmentionné (aforementioned), précité. (various references)

German		vorbenannt, besagt (implies, said). (various references)

Greek		προλεχθείσ (foretold). (various references)

Hebrew		לעיל (above, above mentioned, preceding, supra), � אמר לפ� י, � אמר לעיל (ditto). (various references)

Hungarian		fent említett (above, above mentioned, above-mentioned, afore-cited, aforementioned, afore-mentioned, said). (various references)

Italian		suddetto (above mentioned, ditto, said), predetto (above mentioned). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		既述 (previously mentioned or described), 前記 (above, above-mentioned, said). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぜ�"き (above, above-mentioned, early period, first half year, first term, preceding period, said), きじゅつ (describing, descriptor, magic, previously mentioned or described). (various references)

Korean		� �� 하�" (Aforementioned). (various references)

Manx		rioe raait. (various references)

Pig Latin		aforesaiday

Portuguese		supradito (above mentioned, before-mentioned), supracitado (above mentioned, aforecited, aforementioned, aforenamed, before-mentioned, foremost), sobredito. (various references)

Romanian		amintit mai sus (forenamed), de mai sus. (various references)

Russian		вышеупомянутый (a/n above-named, above mentioned, abovementioned, above-mentioned, aforecited, aforementioned, foregoing, said), вышеизложенный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predhodno rečen. (various references)

Spanish		antes citado, antedicho (above, aforecited, aforementioned), susodicho (above, above mentioned, aforementioned, aforenamed). (various references)

Swedish		förutnämnd (aforecited, aforementioned, aforenamed, said). (various references)

Turkish		adı geçen (aforementioned, aforenamed, mentioned, present, said), yukarıda geçen (aforementioned, aforenamed, supra), daha önce belirtilen (aforementioned). (various references)

Ukranian		вищесказаний (aforementioned), вищевикладений, вищезгаданий (above mentioned, aforementioned, foregoing, forementioned, foresaid, said, same). (various references)

Vietnamese		đã nói ở trên (before-mentioned), đã nói đến trước đây. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Aforesaid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afforesaid, afforesayd, afforesayde, Afforsaid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-i-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: faradise, foresaid, safaried.
	-2 letters: farside, fedoras, roadies.
	-3 letters: adores, afeard, afraid, aiders, ariose, aroids, deairs, dories, faders, faired, farads, fedora, ferias, fiords, fraise, irades, oreads, radios, raised, redias, resaid, roadie, safari, sarode, soared.
	-4 letters: adios, adore, afars, afire, afore, aider, aides, aired, areas, arias, arise, aroid, arose, aside, dares, deair, dears, defis, doers, dorsa, doser, dries, eidos, fader, fades, fados, fairs, farad, fards, fared, fares, faros, fears, feods, feria, fiars, fidos, fiord, fired, fires, fords, fores, fried, fries, frise, froes, ideas, irade, oared, oread, osier, radio, raias, raids, raise, rased, reads, redia, redos, reifs, resid, resod, rides, roads, rosed, safer, sarod, serai, serif, sired, sofar.
	-5 letters: ados, aero, afar, aide, aids, airs, area, ares, arfs, aria, arid, arse, asea, dais, dare, deaf, dear, defi, dies, dire, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, ears, eras, eros, fade, fado, fads, fair, fard, fare, faro, fear, feds, feod, fiar, fido, fids, fire, firs, foes, fora, ford, fore, frae, froe, idea, ides, ired, ires, oafs, oars, odea, odes, orad, ores, osar, rads, raia, raid, rase, read, redo, reds, refs, reif, reis, rias, ride, rids, rife, rifs, rise, road, rode, rods, roes, rose, sade, sadi, safe, said, sard, sari, sear, seif, sera, serf, side, sire, soar, soda, sofa, sora, sord, sore, sori.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-f-i-o-r-s"
	+4 letters: deflagrations.
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