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单词 to be aforehand with
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to be aforehand with
2. to be aforehand with: to anticipate, to forestall; to outstrip; to speak or act before.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall
before-takea1382
preventc1425
devance1485
prevenea1500
lurch1530
to take before the bounda1556
to be aforehand with1570
to be beforehand with1574
to meet halfwaya1586
preoccupate1588
forestall1589
fore-run1591
surprise1591
antedate1595
foreprise1597
preoccupy1607
preoccupy1638
pre-act1655
anticipatea1682
obviate1712
to head off1841
beat1847
to beat out1893
pre-empt1957
1570 T. Wilson tr. Demosthenes 3 Orations 45 Valiant Capitaynes must neuer follow after occasions lost, but rather must preuent them, and be aforehande with them in tyme.
1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. E7 What must he be aforehand with his maister?
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xlii. 286 A sagacity that is aforehand with events.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. viii. 37 Let me for once be aforehand with my Uncle.
1837 Picaroon I. 50 To be aforehand with the day..is the way to make a premium on time.
1900 W. E. W. Collins Scholar of College xviii. 255 But Master Dick he was aforehand with me. He just toppled him into the ditch.
1907 Gateway Aug. 33/1 Tell Oswald the Pope has been aforehand with him.
extracted from aforehandadv.adj.
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