Definition of before

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Before (prep.) An advance of; farther onward, in place or time..

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Novitiate :: Novitiate (n.) Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.
Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest..
Proterandrous :: Proterandrous (a.) Having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.
Prefer :: Prefer (v. t.) To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass..
Preobtain :: Preobtain (v. t.) To obtain beforehand.
Frit :: Frit (v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients..
Sharp :: Sharp (n.) The character [/] used to indicate that the note before which it is placed is to be raised a half step, or semitone, in pitch..
Against :: Against (prep.) By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when.
Preelection :: Preelection (n.) Election beforehand.
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..
Forecited :: Forecited (a.) Cited or quoted before or above.
C :: C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Et
Antipetalous :: Antipetalous (a.) Standing before a petal, as a stamen..
Propaedeutical :: Propaedeutical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand..
Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..
Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..
Post-disseizin :: Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished..
Preconsolidated :: Preconsolidated (a.) Consolidated beforehand.
Prostate :: Prostate (a.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra..
Preselect :: Preselect (v. t.) To select beforehand.
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