document = 'to designate through legal or other official procedure; name officially'

[victor steinbok]

Not to dispute the definition, but perhaps the meaning is a bit
narrower, as in "listed in official/naming documents", e.g.,
incorporation documents. The sense is the same as "officially named",
I suppose, but not quite as general, but has an added benefit of being
a simple case of verbing. Or perhaps I just had too much caffeine
today...

I am sure there is a similar use for a person with false papers, as
in, "He was documented as Jerry Jones, but his real name was..."

VS-)

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Dickinson :  She subsequently opened her
> own modeling agency in 2005, which was documented as *The Janice Dickinson
> Modeling Agency.*
>
> JL

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