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Legitimate :: Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child..

Triable :: Triable (a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another..

Preoccupancy :: Preoccupancy (n.) The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land..

Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..

Precognizable :: Precognizable (a.) Cognizable beforehand.

Swainship :: Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury..

Notable :: Notable (n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body..

Precontrive :: Precontrive (v. t. & i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.

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..

Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence..

Firstly :: Firstly (adv.) In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.

On :: On (prep.) By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor..

Preordain :: Preordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.

Foredoom :: Foredoom (v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

Top :: Top (v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.

Precede :: Precede (v. t.) To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Prejudicate :: Prejudicate (v. t.) To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge..

Foregoer :: Foregoer (n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household..

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