Definition of before

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Before (prep.) In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.

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Aethogen :: Aethogen (n.) A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride..
Advocate :: Advocate (n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly..
Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint..
Pregustation :: Pregustation (n.) The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste.
Preambulate :: Preambulate (v. i.) To walk before.
Patrician :: Patrician (n.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility..
Premeditate :: Premeditate (v. i.) To think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the mind, beforehand..
Precondemn :: Precondemn (v. t.) To condemn beforehand.
Black Monday :: Black Monday () Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold..
Preact :: Preact (v. t.) To act beforehand; to perform previously.
Preraphaelitism :: Preraphaelitism (n.) The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject..
Forechosen :: Forechosen (a.) Chosen beforehand.
Prescience :: Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Prejudicate :: Prejudicate (v. t.) To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge..
Ask :: Ask (v. t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed..
Dravida :: Dravida (n. pl.) A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion..
Sensorium :: Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations..
Nonage :: Nonage (n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.
Tersanctus :: Tersanctus (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word Holy -- in its Latin form, Sanctus -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion..
Imparl :: Imparl (v. i.) To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment.
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