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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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... day, to see Madame he was talking of madmen and madness. The King was present, and everything relating to disease of any kind interested him. The first physician said that he could distinguish the symptoms of approaching madness six months beforehand. "Are there any persons about the Court likely to become mad?" said the King.—"I know one who will be imbecile in less than three months," replied he. The King pressed him to tell the name. He excused himself for some time. At last he ...

— The Memoirs of Louis XV. and XVI., Volume 2 • Madame du Hausset, and of an Unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe

... concealed, as a rule, by the people concerned, and denied if discovered; but here were a lady and gentleman prepared, not only to take the step, but to justify it—under somewhat peculiar circumstances, certainly—and carefully making their friends acquainted with their intention beforehand, as if it were an ordinary engagement. I knew Ideala, and could understand her being over-persuaded. Something of the kind was what I had always feared for her. But, Lorrimer—what sort of a man was he? I own that I was strongly prejudiced ...

— Ideala • Sarah Grand

... Mihailov's picture?" he said, handing him a Russian gazette he had received that morning, and pointing to an article on a Russian artist, living in the very same town, and just finishing a picture which had long been talked about, and had been bought beforehand. The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... first day of the feast fall on a Sabbath, all the people are to bring their palm-branches (beforehand) to the Synagogue. In the morning they come early, and each man must distinguish his own palm-branch, and take it, for the Sages say, "that a man cannot discharge his duty on the first day of the feast by means of his ...

— Hebrew Literature

... say that. . . . In fact I have some influence over them, it is to be hoped, and should impress upon them beforehand that the—er—subject is not to ...

— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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