toforetime

adv

toforetime

adv

Etymology From tofore + time.

1

Obsolete Previously, beforehand.

  • Also there cam a table of sylver, and the holy vessell of the Sankgreall, which Sir Launcelot had sene toforetyme in Kynge Pecchers house.1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:

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