beforetime
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beforetime (not comparable)
- (archaic) Formerly, previously.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
- 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.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Burdens, lines 33–36:
- 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.
References edit
- “beforetime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.