beforetime

Adverb

1. Formerly, previously.
   • There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The...
   • Thou shalt see Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be And no more as the thing beforetime seen. - 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “A Ballad of Burdens”, in Poems and...