单词 | beforetime |
释义 | beˈforetime, adv. [f. before- + time, i.e. ‘the time that was before’: cf. aforetime.] In former time, formerly, previously.
a1300Cursor M. 2110 Affrick..þat bifor time was cald libye. c1440Promp. Parv. 28 Beforetyme, ante, antea. 1611Bible 1 Sam. ix. 9 He that is now called a Prophet, was beforetime called a Seer. 1865Swinburne Ball. Burdens 36 And no more as the thing beforetime seen. ¶ Sometimes two words = Time preceding.
c1450Knt. de la Tour cxiii. 153 The bifore tyme they had be maried. 1614Chapman Odyss. vi. 392 Having touch'd no meat A long before time. |

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