Definition of before

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Before (adv.) In time past; previously; already.

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Presentient :: Presentient (a.) Feeling or perceiving beforehand.
Preceding :: Preceding (a.) Going before; -- opposed to following.
Prophetical :: Prophetical (a.) Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold..
Preambulatory :: Preambulatory (a.) Preceding; going before; introductory.
Precogitate :: Precogitate (v. t.) To cogitate beforehand.
Preelection :: Preelection (n.) Election beforehand.
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..
Alienate :: Alienate (v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from..
Rathe :: Rathe (a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early..
Article :: Article (n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article..
Antelucan :: Antelucan (a.) Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning..
Said :: Said (a.) Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.
Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands..
Front :: Front (v. t.) To appear before; to meet.
Prepense :: Prepense (v. i.) To deliberate beforehand.
Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Precession :: Precession (n.) The act of going before, or forward..
Thunderhead :: Thunderhead (n.) A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm..
Bidding Prayer :: Bidding prayer () The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons..
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