ABOVE-MENTIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does above-mentioned mean? 

• ABOVE-MENTIONED (adjective)
  The adjective ABOVE-MENTIONED has 1 sense:

1. mentioned or named earlier in the same text

  Familiarity information: ABOVE-MENTIONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOVE-MENTIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mentioned or named earlier in the same text

Synonyms:

above-mentioned; above-named

Similar:

preceding (existing or coming before)

 Context examples 

The charges against the said brother John are the following, namely, to wit: First, that on the above-mentioned Feast of the Assumption, small beer having been served to the novices in the proportion of one quart to each four, the said brother John did drain the pot at one draught to the detriment of brother Paul, brother Porphyry and brother Ambrose, who could scarce eat their none-meat of salted stock-fish on account of their exceeding dryness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them being admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:—for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

While waiting and wishing, looking now at the dancers and now at the door, this dialogue between the two above-mentioned ladies was forced on her—“I think, ma'am,” said Mrs. Norris, her eyes directed towards Mr. Rushworth and Maria, who were partners for the second time, “we shall see some happy faces again now.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)