Word Meanings - THERETOFORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative.
BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
HERETOFORE
Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past. Shak.
CORRELATIVELY
In a correlative relation.
CORRELATIVE
Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.
BEFORE
1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
HEREINBEFORE
In the preceding part of this .
THERETOFORE
Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.