beforetime

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: be=fore=time

CIDE DICTIONARY

beforetime, adv. 

 Formerly; aforetime.  [1913 Webster]
"[They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

beforetime

aforetime, ahead, ahead of time, anticipative, anticipatory, before, before now, beforehand, betimes, bright and early, earlier, early, erenow, erewhile, erst, forehand, forehanded, foresighted, foresightedly, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in advance, in anticipation, in good time, in the past, in times past, only yesterday, precociously, prehistorically, prevenient, previously, priorly, recently, then, whilom, yesterday