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theretofore, adv. Now formal.|ˌðɛətʊˈfɔə(r)|
[ME. þer tofore: see there 17 and tofore adv.]
Before that time; previously to that.
c1350Will. Palerne 2611 Þei..wist þat þai in wast wrouȝt þer to-fore. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas viii. i. (MS. Bodl. 263) 368/2 Emperors reknid for ther toforn was non. 1791in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 205 The By-laws theretofore made. 1851Gladstone Glean. (1879) VI. 4 A judgment that alienated dissenting endowments from purposes to which they had theretofore been applied. 1894State Trials (N.S.) VI. 410 According to the canonical practice theretofore observed in England. |