Word Meanings - ALREADY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used

Additional info about word: ALREADY

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used for a future past; as, when you shall arrive, the business will be already completed, or will have been already completed.

Related words: (words related to ALREADY)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• JOSEPH'S FLOWER
  A composite herb , of the same genus as the salsify.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• EGYPTOLOGY
  The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics. Eh, interj. Etym:
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• FUTURELY
  In time to come. Raleigh.
• PRESENTIMENT
  Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• FUTURE
  That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense , the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.
• PRESENTIATE
  To make present.
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• RE-PRESENTATION
  The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.