† aˈforetimes, adv. Obs.
[f. prec., with genitival -s1, as in sometime-s, probably afterwards understood as a plural -s.]
= aforetime.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay ix. 130 The thing which had aforetimes bene disputable among the Heathen, is now admitted as an article of faith. 1662 Glanville Lux Orient. v. (1682) 49 Though it were granted that the soul lived aforetimes without a body. |