1. With reference to the origin or beginning
   - primitively, originally 
2. Before now
   - in the first place, earlier, to begin with, originally

Encyclopedia: In the beginning

• stridulation
• stridulatory
• stridulous
• strife
• Strigidae
• Strigiformes
• strigil
• strigose
• strike
• strike a blow
• strike a chord
• strike a note
• strike back
• strike down
• strike dumb
• strike hard
• strike home
• strike leader
• strike off
• strike pay
• strike up
• strike zone
• strike-slip fault
• strikebound
• strikebreaker