therebefore

Adverb

therebefore (not comparable)

1. Before that time.

   Antonyms:

   thereafter

2. Before that (the thing aforementioned).
   • "Will you take anything, sir?" "He would not dine till his friend Captain Jones arrived;" and turning his heels he finished the room. The old gentleman poked the fire as if he entertained a particular spite against a particular coal at the top, and threw aside the poker so snappishly, that it...1836, Cornelius Webbe, “London Walkers”, in Glances at Life in City and Suburb, Smith, Elder and Company, page 208
   • Now with the train of her handmaids paced to the minster the Queen—
     But lo, cometh Kriemhild the lovely, a very glory-sheen,
     With maidens three-and-forty, which had fared with her unto Rhine:
     In loveliest loomwork, woven in Araby, did they shine.
     So royally swept the maidens up to the...1911, “The feud of the queens”, in Arthur S. Way, transl., The Lay of the Nibelung Men, Cambridge University Press, page 113

   Antonyms:

   thereafter