theretoforeadv.
/ˌðɛːtʊˈfɔː/ Now formal.
Before that time; previously to that.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb]
erea900
beforeeOE
forec1000
toforec1175
therebeforec1200
toforehand1258
forne toc1275
orc1275
andersitha1300
alreadyc1300
rather?1316
beforehandc1330
erstc1330
aforec1350
theretoforea1375
aforehanda1387
forthwitha1400
forwitha1400
or?a1400
ereward14..
toforetimec1400
aforetimes1429
aforetime1433
afore seasons1463
heretoforetime1481
forouth1487
aforrow?a1513
beforrow1568
paravant1590
antecedently1593
formerly1596
precedently1611
preveniently1633
preallably1652
previously1655
precedaneously1657
somewhiles1657
antecedaneously1661
aft1674
prior1675
anteriorly1681
antecedent1690
previous1712
priorly1742
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2611 Þei..wist þat þai in wast wrouȝt þer to-fore.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes viii. i. (Bodl. 263) 368/2 Emperors reknid for ther toforn was non.
1791 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 205 The By-laws theretofore made.
1852 W. E. Gladstone Functions of Laymen in Church 7 A judgment that alienated dissenting endowments from purposes to which they had theretofore been applied.
1894 State Trials (N.S.) VI. 410 According to the canonical practice theretofore observed in England.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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