Great Expectations vocabulary

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aforehand

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Defn: Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.]
Defn: Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand. [Archaic or Dial.]

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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SUB. How, child of wrath and anger! the loud lie?
 For what, my sudden boy?
KAS. Nay, that look you to,
 I am afore-hand.
SUB. O, this is no true grammar,
 And as ill logic! You must render causes, child,

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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I see the trick an’t; here was a consent,
Knowing aforehand of our merriment,
To dash it like a Christmas comedy.

William Shakespeare. Love's Labor's Lost
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