Definition of before

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Before (adv.) On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear..

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Put :: Put (v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case..
Forelook :: Forelook (v. i.) To look beforehand or forward.
Pioneer :: Pioneer (v. t. & i.) To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer..
Tax :: Tax (n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride..
Prerequire :: Prerequire (v. t.) To require beforehand.
Preexist :: Preexist (v. i.) To exist previously; to exist before something else.
Previous :: Previous (a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness..
Prefix :: Prefix (v. t.) To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently.
Antemosaic :: Antemosaic (a.) Being before the time of Moses.
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy..
Prededication :: Prededication (n.) A dedication made previously or beforehand.
Showbread :: Showbread (n.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place..
Hereinbefore :: Hereinbefore (adv.) In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.)..
Theocracy :: Theocracy (n.) The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom..
Subjugated :: Sub judice () Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration..
Afore :: Afore (adv.) Before.
Preventive :: Preventive (a.) Going before; preceding.
Antedate :: Antedate (v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.
Prevent :: Prevent (v. i.) To come before the usual time.
Embryo :: Embryo (n.) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus)..
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