adverb & adjective. In anticipation.

adverb & adjective. In advance; early.

In good pecuniary circumstances; having enough to meet one's obligations and something over; forehanded: as, “rich and much beforehand,”

In anticipation; in advance.

Before there is time for anything to be done; before anything is done.

To be beforehand with, to anticipate; be in advance of; be prepared or ready for.

adjective. In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

adverb. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.

adverb. By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.

adverb. At an earlier or preceding time.

adjective. In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

adverb. ahead of time; in anticipation

adjective. being ahead of time or need

"It gives them, as it were, the title beforehand, to make them feel how doubly miserable it must be not only not to obtain it, but to forfeit it after it had been already ours."

afterwards  

early  

forehand  

aforetime  ahead  ahead of time  anachronistic  ante