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To torture beforehand. Fuller.

To be beforehand with; to anticipate. [Obs.] Their ready guilt preventing thy commands. Pope.

Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.

To inform beforehand; to warn. Ld. Lytton.

To warn beforehand; to forewarn. [R.]

To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak.

ided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation. Making provision for the relief of strangers. Bacon.

Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief. Specifically: (a) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay. (b) A supply of hunting dogs or horses ke…

To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance. His eyes were set by reason of his age. 1 Kings xiv. 4. On these three objects his heart was set. Macaulay. Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. Tennyson.…

for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand. [Cant, U.S.] Bartlett. Adhesive slate (Min.), a kind of slate of a greenish gray color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the tongue; whence the name. -- Aluminous slate, or Alum slate (Min.), a kind of slate…

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

A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] White (Johnson).

s a voluntary agent. God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary, agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him. Hooker.

Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. [Colloq.] Warm householders, every one of them. W. Irving. You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him. Goldsmith.