PREVIOUS TO

Definition: PREVIOUS TO

PREVIOUS TO

1. Before; -- often used adverbially for previously. ``Previous to publication.'' --M. Arnold. ``A policy . . . his friends had advised previous to 1710.'' --J. H. Newman. Syn: Antecedent; preceding; anterior; prior; foregoing; former.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: PREVIOUS TO

Books

• The history of the national debt from the revolution in 1688 to the beginning of 1800; with a preliminary account of the debts contracted previous to that era (reference)

• A history of the novel previous to the seventeenth century (reference)

• A List of Editions of the Holy Scriptures and Parts Thereof: Printed in America Previous to 1860 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

19th Century photograph of a lithograph by Bowen & Company, depicting the ship "as she appeared previous to the explosion" that destroyed her in the Mississippi River near Fort St. Philip, 28 April 1862. Credit: NAVY.

The Hon. Jefferson Davis, president-elect of the new southern confederacy, addressing the citizens of Montgomery, Ala., from the balcony of the Exchange Hotel, on the night of February 16th, 1861, and previous to his inauguration / from a sketch by our s. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Confederate Bull Battery previous to the Battle of Bull Run. Credit: Library of Congress.

Appearance of cemetery hill previous to Pick[etts] charge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Previous to Antietam. Rebels crossing the Potomac. Union scouts in foreground. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rural rehabilitation client. Chicken farmer making good on rural resettlement loan. He sells one case of eggs a day. Worked on a state emergency relief administration job previous to loan. San Fernando Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington passing the Delaware, evening previous to the Battle of Trenton, Dec. 25th, 1776 / / painted by T. Sully ; etched by W. Humphrys ; engraved by G.S. Lang. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

They may acquire French nationality only by naturalisation, on condition of having been domiciled in Alsace-Lorraine from a date previous to August 3, 1914, and of submitting proof of unbroken residence within the restored territory for a period of three years from November 11, 1918. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

It is also important to know that any legally constituted company in Venezuela interested in the manufacturing, importing, marketing and providing maintenance services to equipment used in the health area, must register previous to any commercial transaction in the National Sanitary Registry. (references)

Economic History

Angola

Previous to 1989, U.S.-Angolan relations were defined by the Cold War. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaans

voor dat (before), alvorens (before). (various references)

Albanian

përpara (afore, ahead, along, before, ere, erst, erstwhile, fore, foremost, forth, forward, frontward, frontwards, in advance, in front, in front of, of old, onward, or, past, preliminary, prior to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

преди (afore, ago, already, before, beforehand, ere, or, preceding, preparatory to, prior to, since, whilom). (various references)

Czech

dříve než (prior to). (various references)

Dutch

vooraleer (before), voor (as, at, because of, before, by, during, for, for sake of, furrow, in, in front of, in order to, like, of, on, on account of, owing to, per, through, to, toward, towards, until, upon, whereas, while, whilst, wrinkle), eer (before, honor, honour, preferably, rather), alvorens te (before), alvorens (before), aleer (before). (various references)

Esperanto

antaŭ ol (before). (various references)

Finnish

ennen (before, previously, rather). (various references)

French

préalablement � , avant (previously, prior), antérieurement � . (various references)

Frisian

foar't (before), ear't (before). (various references)

German

ehe (before, ere, marriage, matrimony, wedlock), bevor (afore, before, ere). (various references)

Greek 

πριν (afore, ago, before, beforehand, ere, preparatory to, prior). (various references)

Hungarian

vmit megelőzően, vmi előtt (in advance of sg, in front of sg), előbb (before, ci-devant, previously). (various references)

Papiamen

promer cu (before), antes cu (before). (various references)

Pig Latin

eviouspray otay

Portuguese

antesque, antesde, anteriormente a (prior to). (various references)

Romanian

înainte de (above, ere, preparatory to, to). (various references)

Russian 

до (above, afore, as far as 1, before, c, in so far as, must, pleased, preliminary to, prior the, prior to, thru, til, till, till 1, to, to power of, to the earlier of, until, until !мес!, until [h], unto). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pre (afore, ago, anteriorly, back, before, earlier, ere, pre, preferably, prior to, rather, sooner). (various references)

Spanish

antes de que (before), antes de (ahead of, before, by, ere, preparatory to, previously to, prior to). (various references)

Swedish

före (ahead, ahead of, before, ere, going, in front, in front of, preparatory to, prior to, surface). (various references)

Turkish

-den evvel, -den önce (before, prior to). (various references)

Ukrainian

раніше (above, afore, aforetime, already, antecedently, anteriorly, before, before now, earlier on, erst, erstwhile, fore, formerly, in the past, previously, prior to, sooner, supra), до (against, as far as, at, before, by, down, ere, for, into, near, of, on, or, previously to, prior to, till, to, to the, toward, towards, until, unto, while). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: overtips, overtops, pervious, previous, roupiest, sorptive, sportive, stopover, viperous, virtuose, virtuoso, vitreous.

-3 letters: isotope, outvies, oversup, overtip, overtop, petrous, piteous, poorest, posture, pouters, poutier, privets, prostie, proteus, proviso, provost, reposit, revuist, riotous, riposte, ropiest, sootier, soupier, spouter, stooper, stourie, stuiver, troupes, uproots, virtues.

-4 letters: erupts, esprit, otiose, ouster, outers, outvie, pivots, poiser, pooris.

+3 letters: supervirtuoso.

+4 letters: superovulation, supervirtuosos.

+5 letters: overconsumption, overpopulations, overproductions, overspeculation, superovulations.

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