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betimes, adv.|bɪˈtaɪmz|
Forms: 4 bitimes, -tymes, 4–5 be-, bytymys, 5–6 bytymes, 6 betymes, bytimes, (8–9 by times), 6– betimes.
[f. betime + advb. genitive -s; cf. beside, besides.]
1. At an early time, period, or season; early in the year; early in life.
c1314Guy Warw. 1212 Al bi times þou miȝt wende; Ȝete no hastow ben here a moneþ to þende. 1578Lyte Dodoens 208 The flowers of the first kinde, do shewe bytimes, as in Marche or before. 1611Bible Prov. xiii. 24 He that loueth him, chasteneth him betimes. 1791J. Wilson in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) IV. 388 Good principles..should be laid betimes, as the foundation. 1875Helps Ess. 59 He [man of business] must learn betimes to love truth.
2. spec. At an early hour, early in the morning.
1481Caxton Reynard 43, I wil to morow bytymes as the sonne riseth take my way to rome. 1535Coverdale Bible Josh. vii. 16 Iosua gat him vp by tymes in the mornynge. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 2 Not to bee a bedde after midnight, is to be vp betimes. 1663Pepys Diary 1 Sept., Up pretty betimes, and after a little at my violl, to my office. 1828Scott F.M. Perth III. 59, I will ride to Perth to-morrow by times.
3. In good time, in due time; while there is yet time, before it is too late.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 372 And it wer nede þat cristis chirche toke tente to þis word by-tymys. 1545Brinklow Complaynt (1874) 95 Repent betymes, and..fall diligently to prayer. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 186 To appease betimes Th' incensed Deitie. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 298 Happy those who learn this lesson betimes. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun (1879) II. xxv. 254 It is wise, therefore, to come back betimes, or never.
4. In a short time, soon, speedily, anon, forthwith.
c1400Destr. Troy xiv. 5966 So hit tid hom tensiche betymys þat day. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 36 He tyres betimes, that spurs too fast betimes. 1707Freind Peterboro's Cond. Sp. 180 We hope for a Maritine Force betimes in these Seas. |