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† ˈtherebeˈfore, adv. Obs.
Forms: see there and before.
[Late OE.; two words.]
1. Before that in position or order; in front.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 9 Ðæt folc þæt þar beforan [c 1160 Hatton Gosp., þær be-fore] ferde.
2. Before that (time); formerly, previously.
c1200[see thereafter 3]. c1275Passion our Lord 218 in O.E. Misc. 43 As vre louerd þer by-vore heom iseyd hedde. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 99 In sterres many a wynter ther biforn Was writen the deeth of Ector Achilles. c1430Freemasonry 302 Ȝef he nulle okepye hem no more, As he hath y-done ther by-fore. 1592in J. Morris Troub. Cath. Forefathers (1877) 34 And the priest there before dead. |