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Aforementioned :: Aforementioned (a.) Previously mentioned; before-mentioned.

Foresignify :: Foresignify (v. t.) To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify.

Discount :: Discount (v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review..

Boot :: Boot (n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach..

Panto- :: Panto- () Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous..

Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..

Parvise :: Parvise (n.) a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers..

Preoccupation :: Preoccupation (n.) The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession..

Volley :: Volley (v. i.) To return the ball before it touches the ground.

Dispossess :: Dispossess (v. t.) To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown..

Miscarry :: Miscarry (v. i.) To bring forth young before the proper time.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands..

Predefine :: Predefine (v. t.) To define beforehand.

Prologue :: Prologue (n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance.

Preoccupy :: Preoccupy (v. t.) To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held..

Forehand :: Forehand (n.) All that part of a horse which is before the rider.

No :: No (adv.) Nay; not; not at all; not in any respect or degree; -- a word expressing negation, denial, or refusal. Before or after another negative, no is emphatic..

Synacme :: Syn- () A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l..

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