Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In a preceding part of this document, statement, or book.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Before in this (statement, narrative, or document): referring to something already named or described.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb formal In a preceding part of this speech, book, or text; before this.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in the preceding part of the current text

Etymologies

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herein +‎ before

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Examples

  • Brunswick and Maine to regulate their future proceedings according to the terms hereinbefore set forth until the final settlement of the territorial dispute or until the Governments of the United States and

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren 1878

  • Discontented as he was, the expression hereinbefore written would have seemed profane to young Fielding, for a farmer's farm and a sailor's ship have always something sacred in the sufferer's eyes, though one sends one to jail, and the other the other to Jones.

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • Be it further enacted, That every County which shall refuse or neglect to levy a tax, and build the School houses herein specified, shall at any time hereafter be entitled to receive the forty dollars hereby appropriated to each district, upon complying with the terms hereinbefore specified.

    The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908

  • Be it further enacted that every County which shall refuse or neglect to levy the tax and build the school Houses herein specified shall at any time hereafter be entitled to receive the forty Dollars hereby appropriated to each District upon complying with the terms hereinbefore specified.

    The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908

  • Any lawful tender of payment to and ser - vice of process upon such agent or attorney shall be deemed sufiicient tender to or service upon the purchaser or holder of such real estate; and if upon reasonable search such purchaser, holder, agent or attorney cannot be found at the place described as hereinbefore provided, or being found neglects or refuses to release such estate upon the terms and in the manner provided by law, or if such holder or purchaser neglects to file a certificate as required by the preceding section, such real estate may be redeemed in the manner provided in sections fifty - eight and fifty-nine.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Subject only to the right of the Board to cause amounts to be paid into the Current Expenses Account and to expend the same as hereinbefore provided, the Gross Revenues of the Project and all moneys and investments paid or to be paid, or held or to be held by the

    Board of Visitors minutes 1960

  • Thereafter, as soon as any portion of the Project becomes revenue-producing, and after providing for the payment of Current Expenses as hereinbefore provided, the State Treasurer shall transfer from the Revenue Fund and deposit to the credit of the Bond

    Board of Visitors minutes 1960

  • WHEREAS section 9 of the Organic Act of Puerto Rico, 39 Stat. 954 (48 U.S. C. 734), provides that "the statutory laws of the United States not locally inapplicable, except as hereinbefore or hereinafter otherwise provided, shall have the same force and effect in Puerto Rico as in the United States"; and

    EXECUTIVE ORDER 10005 1948

  • State where the depositor was last heard from; and if, within two years thereafter, such depositor shall not appear, nor a husband, wife, or child of such depositor, to claim his deposits, they shall be used by the Board of Trustees as hereinbefore provided for in this section.

    History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

  • No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.

    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

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