Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English by-tyme ("by time"), equivalent to by + time. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Formerly 'betime'; "the final 's' is due to the habit of adding '- s' or '- es' to form adverbs; cf. 'whiles' (afterwards”
“Therefore, brethren, take we heed betime, while the day of salvation lasteth; for the night cometh, when none can work.”
“But his mention of Madonna got me hoping that it might betime for the material girl to stop in as a guest judge!”
“And in the morn betime, as those [5977] Lacedaemonian lasses saluted”
““‘To business that we love we rise betime and go to it with delight,’” Nectar quoted.”
“_And I my reading learnt betime From studying pocket-books.”
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
“And so that day he took his lodging betime in a little town called Milly.”
“Then, surely it had been sleeping now with chubby limbs flung wide, its breathing so soft that you had to bend your ear to its red lips to hear it, had been lying wearied with dancing and mischief-making and shouting and toddling and falling, resting the night from a happy to-day till the dawn woke it betime for a happy to-morrow.”
“Similarly at Jaffa in choosing a mount for the ride up to Jerusalem 'be not too long behind your fellows; for an ye come betime, ye may choose the best mule' and 'ye shall pay no more for the best than for the worst'.”
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
“If ye shall go in a galley, make your covenant with the patron betime; and choose you a place in the said galley in the overmost stage.”
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
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