beforetime

English

Etymology

From before +‎ time.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈfɔːtʌɪm/

Adverb

beforetime (not comparable)

(archaic) Formerly, previously.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Acts ]:
  There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges.
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Burdens, lines 33-36
  Thou shalt see
  
  Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green
  
  And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be
  
  And no more as the thing beforetime seen.

References

beforetime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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