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adverb

Beforehand adv.

In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; often followed by with. "Agricola... resolves to be beforehand with the danger." "The last cited author has been beforehand with me."

By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime. "They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking."

adjective

Beforehand adj. In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. "Rich and much beforehand."

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Etymology of 'Beforehand'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Beforehand" Quotes from Famous Books

... often—hardly ever, in fact. You will remember that there was great talk, when you reached the Valley of Holiness, about my having prophesied your coming and the very hour of your arrival, two or three days beforehand." ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... longer knew what their own heaven was. It is otherwise when, as is often done, angels are raised up by the Lord out of a lower heaven into a higher that they may behold its glory; for then they are prepared beforehand, and are encompassed by intermediate angels, through whom they have communication with those they come among. From all this it is plain that the three heavens are entirely distinct ...

— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg

... do any thinking beforehand; there was no foreseeing what traps might be set, and no way to prepare for them. Truly it was a shabby advantage to take of a girl situated as this one was. One day, during the course of it, an able lawyer of Normandy, Maetre Lohier, happened to be in Rouen, and I will give ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... but the indictment counts for nothing in these days; it's the verdict that is everything, and that's settled beforehand." ...

— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

... the Saturday that Miss Jinny came to see us that she never made sketches beforehand," said Judith, earnestly. "And she told Patricia the very day Elinor fainted that she hadn't begun her study. So I pretended to myself that we were all in a story, and I thought and thought what I should make of ...

— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther

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