Definition of before

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Before (prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.

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Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment..
Beyond :: Beyond (prep.) At a place or time not yet reached; before.
Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach..
Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel..
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind..
Blancard :: Blancard (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven..
Foredispose :: Foredispose (v. t.) To bestow beforehand.
Theatre :: Theatre (n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc..
Proposition :: Proposition (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
Previse :: Previse (v. t.) To inform beforehand; to warn.
Forefeel :: Forefeel (v. t.) To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
Spoon :: Spoom (v. i.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles..
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate..
Vest :: Vest (n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts..
Prevention :: Prevention (n.) The act of going, or state of being, before..
Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..
Picture :: Picture (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
Underglaze :: Underglaze (a.) Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is, before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said of colors in porcelain painting..
Foreread :: Foreread (v. t.) To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine.
Repass :: Repass (v. i.) To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes..
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