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Definition of Beforehand
1. Adverb. Ahead of time; in anticipation. "Should have made reservations beforehand"
2. Adjective. Being ahead of time or need. "Was beforehand with her report"
Definition of Beforehand
1. adv. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
2. a. In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
Definition of Beforehand
1. Adverb. At an earlier or preceding time. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beforehand
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beforehand
Literary usage of Beforehand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"They then secured beforehand the narrow pass between two hills which led into
the country of ... beforehand ..."
2. A Lexicon Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, James Morris Whiton (1891)
"XXw, to put beside or along beforehand. ... to supply beforehand: to offer be/ore.
... 4eat, to do beforehand, take the first step :—Pass. to be made or ..."
3. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"... his manner of casting the draught of water which a ship will draw beforehand :
which ... and he is the first that hath come to any certainty beforehand, ..."
4. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1840)
"Plutarch says, he never harangued them without praying beforehand, that " not a
word might slip out of his mouth, that was not pertinent to the business in ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"This is true even when the rod has been heated to softness beforehand in a
temporary mounting. The conductivity of the rod may be completely controlled by ..."
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