SOMETIME

adv. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly. Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me Shak.

2.
adv.

At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. Shak.

3.
adv.

At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

4.
a.

Having been formerly; former; late; whilom. Our sometime sister, now our queen. Shak. Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. Talfourd.

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