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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

... not get much if you made your bargain beforehand. It is only at a moment of urgent danger that fear will open purse-strings widely. Had we bargained beforehand with these traders we might have thought ourselves lucky if we had got ten crowns apiece as the price of our escort to Cadiz, and indeed ...

— By England's Aid • G. A. Henty

... and its followers undoubtedly did something to remove the reproach from prose fiction, and more to sharpen the appetite for it. But they were nothing new: the short tale being of unknown antiquity. The "Coverley Papers" were new and did much more. This new kind of treatment may not have suggested beforehand (it is not certain that it did not) the extensive novel of character and manners—the play lengthened, bodied more strongly, and turned into narrative form. But the process was there; the instances of it were highly reputed and ...

— The English Novel • George Saintsbury

... far the sins of the people of God, which have been for ever pardoned, are to be revealed at judgment. But we see no reason whatever why this should not be the case, and every reason why it should. We might, beforehand, have thought it more likely that God would not have recorded in the Bible, and exposed in the light of all coming ages, the sins of His most eminent servants, as those of Abraham, Moses, David, of Peter, or of Paul. But He has told the whole truth regarding them for our warning and instruction; ...

— Parish Papers • Norman Macleod

... only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes. You can't know beforehand. ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... mount of perpetual vision; overlooking the fact that it has its own purposes, to be wrought out by its own light, and within its own limits. For my part, I must confess that I do not share in this desire to know all about the next world, and to see beforehand everything that is going to be. I have no solicitude about the mere scenery and modes of the future state. But this desire to be in the midst of perpetual revelations argues that there is not enough to fill our minds and excite ...

— The Crown of Thorns - A Token for the Sorrowing • E. H. Chapin

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