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Before that time; beforehand. [Obs.] Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.

ason, referring to something previously stated; for that. I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come. Luke xiv. 20. Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore Matt. xix. 27.

Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

Before. [Obs.] Toforn him goeth the loud minstrelsy. Chaucer. Would thou wert as thou tofore hast been! Shak.

To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.

Incapable of being foreseen. South.

Deprived of the foreskin; circumcised. [R.] Milton.

For which reason; so; -- used relatively. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matt. vii. 20.

begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a…

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

ate in lands (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

ry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

o stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

vow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] Shak.