ppl. a. [See BEFORE E 1.] Mentioned, or treated of before or already. Now arch. or Obs., its place being taken by AFORESAID.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 42. Ðeos biuore seide psalmes.

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c. 1391.  Chaucer, Astrol., 58. Eche of þe poyntis be-fornseyd.

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1480.  Bury Wills (1850), 55. The high aughter of the chirche of oure lady befornseyde.

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1574.  trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 79 b. In witnesse whereof, ye parties beforesaid interchaungeably haue put to their seales.

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1766.  in Entick’s London, IV. 319. That you cause to be proclaimed the beforesaid fair.

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