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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Beforehand

Be·fore′hand′ (bē·fōr′hănd′), adv. [Before + hand.] 1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; — often followed by with.

Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton.

The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

2. By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.

They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking. Hooker.

Be·fore′hand′, a. In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

Rich and much beforehand. Bacon.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.