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.