ETYMOLOGY
formed similarly to Middle Dutch namecont, naemcont, Danish navnkund (obs.); from the Germanic base of name (n.) + the Germanic base of couth (known (obs.)
EXAMPLE
“…In eche of this Epicicles was ficched one of the seven namecouth planetes, that be called sterres Erratikes, saaf only þat the sonne was withowt þe epicicle, fiched evene in the circumference of his difference. ….”
From: The Booke of the Pylgremage of the Sowle
Translated from the French of Guillaume de Guileville
From the Egerton Manuscript, a1500
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