Meaning & use
benempt
Named, called, or promised; an archaic word once used in formal or poetic English.
See it in a sentence
In the old poem, the knight is benempt Sir Guyon by the narrator.
The estate was benempt to his eldest son according to the ancient will.
A note on using this word
Benempt is obsolete outside historical or literary quotation; it survives mainly in Renaissance poetry such as Spenser's work.
Words with a similar meaning
namedpromised
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