verb
definition
To give a new name to.
Examples of renamed in a Sentence
In 1798 it was freed from Bernese rule and became part of the canton du Leman (renamed canton de Vaud in 1803) of the Helvetic Republic.
In 1910 it was renamed and appropriated to the uses of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which was instituted in 1826, and incorporated by royal charter in 1838, on the model of the Royal Academy in London.
In the following year the new settlement was renamed San Gabriel.
New Brunswick is the seat of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, the oldest theological school in the United States, founded in 1784 in New York City, situated at Flatbush, Long Island, in 1796-1810, and removed to New Brunswick in 1810, and of Rutgers College (originally Dutch Reformed, now nonsectarian), which was founded in 1766 as Queen's College, was rechartered in 1770 as a college for "the education of youth in the learned languages, liberal and useful arts and sciences and especially in divinity," was first opened for instruction in 1770, was closed during1795-1807and 1816-1825, and was renamed in 1825 in honour of Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745-1830), of New York City, a liberal benefactor.
He renamed the city after his wife Arsinoe, but the old name was soon resumed.
This church, which was entirely rebuilt in 1820, was renamed St Matthew in 1880, when a new St John's was built within its own parish.
Her dissolute court was a bad home for a boy who was to be the sovereign, but Catherine took great trouble to arrange his first marriage with Wilhelmina of Darmstadt, who was renamed in Russia Nathalie Alexeevna, in 1773.
When his wife died in childbirth in that year his mother arranged another marriage with the beautiful Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg, renamed in Russia Maria Feodorovna.
Settled in 1798 and known first as McNairville and then as Rippeyville, the place was renamed about 1840 in honour of William Wilkins (1779-1865), a member of the United States Senate in 1831-1834, minister to Russia in 1834-1835, a representative in Congress in 1843-1844, and secretary of war in President John Tyler's cabinet in 1844-1845.
After 711 it rose to some importance as a Moorish fortress and trading station, and was renamed Wad Ash, " Water of Life."
The village was replatted in November 1784 and renamed in honour of General Washington, to whom a large part of the site had belonged.
The settlement was first, known as New Beverly, but was soon renamed after Bridlington (Burlington), the Yorkshire home of many of the settlers.
Picault, who acted as agent of the celebrated Mahe de la Bourdonnais, governor of the Ile de France (Mauritius), named the principal island Mahe and the group Iles de la Bourdonnais, a style changed in 1756, when the islands were renamed after Moreau de Sechelles, at that time controleur des finances under Louis XV.
A large region was sunken, enormous fissures were opened in the earth, the surface soil was displaced 3 In 1804, the District of Louisiana, in the administrative system of the Territory of Indiana; in 1805, an independent government, renamed the Territory of Louisiana; in 1812, the Territory of Missouri; in 1816, another grade of territorial government.
Its supporters, who called themselves the South African party, the Progressives being renamed Unionists, obtained 17 seats out of a total of 26.
In the following month a British ship arrived, and its captain took formal possession of the post and renamed it Fort George.
The former French port (Queuleu) at Metz was renamed Goeben after him, and the 28th infantry bears his name.
It corresponds to the anc. Lagania, renamed Anastasiopolis under the emperor Anastasius (491-518), a bishopric by the 5th century.
The chief organs of the party in the press were the Independent, renamed the Constitutionnel in 1817, and the Journal des debats.
In March 1776 he took command of a palmetto fort which he had built on Sullivan's Island, off Charleston, which he held against the attack of Admiral Sir Peter Parker on the 28th of June, and which soon after the battle was renamed Fort Moultrie by the General Assembly.
Fashoda, renamed Kodok, is the headquarters of the Upper Nile mudiria.
It contains the outlying villages of Greenwood, Montrose and Boyntonville; and, larger than these, Wakefield, near the centre of the township. In this village is the town hall, the gift of Cyrus Wakefield (1811-1873), and the Beebe Town Library, founded in 1856 as the Public Library of South Reading, and later renamed in honour of Lucius Beebe, a generous patron.
When the building of the railway between the Nile and the Red Sea was begun, it was determined to create a port at this harbour - which was renamed Port Sudan (Bander es- Sudan).
More accurately this should be renamed ' The Stunt Of Paycheck ' as it mainly covers the motorcycle chase.
Miles ought to be renamed Whispering Death, a tantalizing vision of severed vocal cords and whiplash obscenities.
Myanmar is ruled with an iron fist by a brutal military dictatorship, which has renamed the country Myanmar.
In 1857, the dreadnought was replaced with a larger hulk, HMS Caledonia (renamed Dreadnought) which had formerly held 120 guns.
Arnold Spencer-Smith was the founding editor of the student magazine, The Queens ' Courier, renamed after two issues The Dial.
Now renamed simply Hancock, the season was overall a pale imitation of its former glory.
In 1775 Franz Mesmer developed healing by animal magnetism which was later renamed hypnosis.
With great prescience Linde renamed the cellars the Phoenix Distillery, and from the ashes of one industry another emerged.
Organic World in Friars Stile Road, Richmond Hill, is to be renamed The Real Butchers to avoid misleading the public.
The video release was then probably renamed Goodtimes Video Classics, with a purely animated title sequence - but with the original end credits.
For example the blue tit, which perhaps should be renamed the UV tit!
Ilu ger, without having seen an example, renamed the genus Dicholophus - a term which has since been frequently applied to it - placing it in the curious congeries of forms having little affinity which he called Alectorides.
Chosen by Cook himself, she was renamed the " Endeavour," in allusion to the great work which her commander was setting out to achieve.
Though restored by Augustus and renamed Sebaste, after the great earthquake of 15 B.C., and visited in state by Titus before his Jewish War in 79 B.C., it was ruinous and desolate by Jerome's time 3; but the prestige of its priest-kings partly lingers in the exceptional privileges of the patriarch of the Cypriote Church (see Cyprus, Church Of).
When Christian county was formed from Logan county in 1797, Hopkinsville, formerly called Elizabethtown, became the countyseat, and was renamed in honour of Samuel Hopkins (c. 1 75 0 - 1819), an officer of the Continental Army in the War of Independence, a pioneer settler in Kentucky, and a representative in Congress from Kentucky in 1813-1815.
In 1964 she was sold to the Greek shipping magnate Achille Lauro, who renamed her ' Angelina Lauro '.
The firm, renamed the H J Heinz Co. 1888, specialized in the manufacture of prepared foods and condiments.
For example the blue tit, which perhaps should be renamed the UV tit !
After the designer gained success in the fashion world, she renamed the company.
Alberta Correspondence School was renamed Alberta Distance Learning Centre in 1991 and in 1995 students were able to submit assignments by email.
The school has since renamed the gymnasium in his honor.
This independent charity was later renamed Wildlife Warriors Worldwide.
Renamed Kate Plus 8, the new and improved Gosselin hour will now focus on Kate and her journey as a single mother.
The band was renamed for its lead singer, Sade, and released its first album in 1984, called Diamond Life.
The Board of Regents renamed the school Oklahoma City Community College in 1974.
The school was renamed Sinclair College in 1948 after the founder of the educational program.
It was renamed in honor of the city's Point State Park.