Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beforehand.
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- adverb obsolete
Beforehand ,previously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Launcelot been in his privy thoughts and in his mind so set inwardly to the queen as he was in seeming outward to God, there had no knight passed him in the quest of the Sangreal; but ever his thoughts were privily on the queen, and so they loved together more hotter than they did toforehand, and had such privy draughts together, that many in the court spake of it, and in especial Sir
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Holy father, said Sir Launcelot, I marvel of the voice that said to me marvellous words, as ye have heard toforehand.
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And then the king and all estates went home unto Camelot, and so went to evensong to the great minster, and so after upon that to supper, and every knight sat in his own place as they were toforehand.
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Palomides and encountered with him, and he in the same wise served him as did Bleoberis toforehand.
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Then by adventure he came into the country of Gore, and into the abbey where Launcelot had been toforehand, and found the tomb of
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Then Sir Launcelot took his sword in his hand, and privily went to a place where he had espied a ladder toforehand, and that he took under his arm, and bare it through the garden, and set it up to the window, and there anon the queen was ready to meet him.
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Then Bors told him how he came into the ship, and by whose admonishment; and either told other of their temptations, as ye have heard toforehand.
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And so after upon that to supper, and every knight sat in his own place as they were toforehand.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous
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And then the King and all estates [9] went home unto Camelot, and so went to evensong to the great minster, and so after upon that to supper, and every knight sat in his own place as they were toforehand.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Launcelot had been toforehand, and found the tomb of King Bagdemagus, but Joseph of Aramathie's son was founder thereof; and the tomb of
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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