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beforetime

adv
/bɪˈfɔːtʌɪm/UK

Etymology

From before + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as beforetime — “before + time”

Definitions

  1. Formerly, previously.

    • There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges.
    • Thou shalt see Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be And no more as the thing beforetime seen.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA