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(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest): He's in his fit now ; and doe's not talke after the wiſeſt ; hee ſhall taſte of my Bottle : if hee haue neuer drunke wine afore, it will goe neere to remoue his Fit :(..)
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
Before; in advance of the time of.
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Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
In advance of the time when; before.
(RQ:King James Version)
(circa), Laurence de Premierfait, ''Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes'', as quoted in ''Lydgate's Fall of Princes'' (1923, The Carnegie Institution of Washington):
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before; afore: situated geographically or metaphorically in front of
1399, Rich. Redeless IV, 72
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