1. With reference to the origin or beginning
   - primitively, originally 
2. Before now
   - in the first place, earlier, to begin with, originally

Encyclopedia: In the beginning

• confidante
• confide
• confidence
• confidence game
• confidence man
• confidence trick
• confident
• confidential
• confidential adviser-advisee relation
• confidential information
• confidentiality
• confidentially
• confidently
• confider
• confiding
• confidingly
• configuration
• configurational
• configurationism
• configure
• configured
• confine
• confined
• confinement
• confines