ppl. a. arch. [ABOVE adv. A 4 + SAID.] Mentioned higher up on a document or page; previously mentioned; aforesaid (which is the ordinary modern equivalent).

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1366.  Maundev., iv. 26. Alle the contreyes and Iles aboveseyd.

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1494.  Fabyan, V. xciii. 68. After the abouesayd victory … he sped hym towarde Yorke.

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1680.  H. More, Apocalypsis Apoc., 355. The wicked suggestions of the abovesaid Jezebel.

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1790.  Cowper, Lett., June 17, Wks. 1876, 332. This, and more of the same sort passed in my mind on seeing the old woman abovesaid.

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  Similarly, above-bounden, -cited, -found, -given, -mentioned, -named, -written.

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1755.  N. Magens, Ess. Ins., II. 393. Whereas the abovenamed CD hath advanced and lent unto the abovebounden A & B the sum of £500, etc.

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1653.  Milton, Consid. Hirelings, Wks. 1851, 378. By that command to Peter, and by this to all Ministers abovecited.

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1765.  Ferguson, in Phil. Trans., LV. 68. Multiplying the above-found quantities by the square of the diameter.

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1865.  Lubbock, Preh. Times, 325. He refers to the above-given calculation.

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1707.  Freind, Peterboro’s Cond. in Spain, 26. We are willing to comply with the King’s desire for the above-mention’d attempts.

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1865.  Lubbock, Preh. Times, 336. The above-mentioned facts prove only that it will not always do so.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 604. Xenocrates mine authour aboue-named affirmeth that, etc.

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1674.  Playford, Skill of Musick, I. xi. 45. Tryal may be made in the above-written Notes.

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