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An affix.

Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.

Named or quoted before.

Going before; foregoing.

Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

Named before. Peacham.

Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

One who aggregates.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

See Agister.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

An agriculturist; a farmer. [R.]

On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.

The adjutant of a regiment.

Charcoal prepared for making powder.