Meanings
adverbtoforetime (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletePreviously, 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
Origin
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