AFORESAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aforesaid mean? 

• AFORESAID (adjective)
  The adjective AFORESAID has 1 sense:

1. being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

  Familiarity information: AFORESAID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFORESAID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

Synonyms:

aforementioned; aforesaid; said

Context example:

said party has denied the charges

Similar:

same (same in identity)

 Context examples 

He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The upper part of this room was fenced off from the rest; and there, on the two sides of a raised platform of the horse-shoe form, sitting on easy old-fashioned dining-room chairs, were sundry gentlemen in red gowns and grey wigs, whom I found to be the Doctors aforesaid.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That the said Quinbus Flestrin, contrary to the duty of a faithful subject, is now preparing to make a voyage to the court and empire of Blefuscu, for which he has received only verbal license from his imperial majesty; and, under colour of the said license, does falsely and traitorously intend to take the said voyage, and thereby to aid, comfort, and abet the emperor of Blefuscu, so lately an enemy, and in open war with his imperial majesty aforesaid.

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

Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it certainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most abject submission.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)