(adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
(adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
(a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(2) The striatal dopaminergic input was extensively destroyed beforehand to preclude the possibility of reinnervation of the striatum by endogenous dopaminergic neurons.
(3) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
(4) Beforehand, the claim that the symport of L-glutamate with Na+ is linked to simultaneous antiport with K+ has been confirmed by the demonstration that equilibrium exchange of L-glutamate is inhibited by potassium.
(5) In the aortic strips which had been treated with Ca antagonists beforehand, nicorandil at all concentrations tested produced a long lasting relaxation, and the rhythmic contraction did not appear during exposure to nicorandil.
(6) Administration of propranolol (a beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug) beforehand did not prevent lipid mobilization.
(7) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
(8) The two men walked through the grounds beforehand, and were to meet again on Wednesday.
(9) [The Sunday Mirror] ought to have the justification already in place ... One of the things about the code is that newspapers think beforehand,” he told a fringe meeting organised by the Media Standards Trust at the Tory party conference on Tuesday morning.
(10) Subodh Chandra, an attorney for Tamir’s mother Samaria, said they had been given no information about the announcement beforehand and had learned it was taking place through a public statement made by the county prosecutor’s office about an hour earlier.
(11) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
(12) In normotensive patients the filling pressure could often not be sufficiently lowered as a too severe reduction of arterial pressure occurred beforehand.
(13) The ability of spermatozoa to survive cryopreservation could not be predicted from the properties of the semen beforehand.
(14) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
(15) Procedures to be followed were carefully explained to all students beforehand.
(16) McKeown, the director of west coast operations, and Kirkham, said O’Reilly had in the moments beforehand irritated residents who were trying to put out fires and clear wreckage.
(17) was injected intravenously 20 minutes before operation in 4 patients but 24 hours beforehand in the remainder.
(18) He said beforehand that it would be "a weight off my shoulders, like going on holiday".
(19) A cone-shaped dilator is placed beforehand at the proximal end of the vertical limb of the T tube to facilitate the passage of that end through the stenotic subglottic space.
(20) May sound reassuring on the electoral doorstep but likely to be trashed beforehand by weary doctors and political opponents.