affor (notcomparable)
- Obsolete spelling ofafore.
affor
- Obsolete spelling ofafore(“before, in advance of the time of”).
- 1501Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York Vol. IV (1869, York District Probate Registry, England), page 196:
- providid that if it happen one of theym to decesseaffor sche be maried, her porcion to be disposed to th’use and behove of Robert my son […]
- 1630-1650, William Bradford, journal, as quoted by Janet Farrell Brodie,Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (1994, Cornell University Press), page 38:
- prayed him to forgive her, for Lyford had overcome her, and defiled her body before mariageaffor he had comended him onto her for a husband.
1881, John Matthias Weylland,Our Veterans: Life-stories of the London City Mission, page168:I was in here four times, and went out to try to get on, but couldn't,affor I comed in sixteen years ago, and my old woman was inaffor she died.
- Obsolete spelling ofafore(“before, geographically or metaphorically in front of”).
- 16C, title unavailable, as quoted by Arthur Geoffrey Dickens,Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century (1962), volume [illegible], page 116:
- She wold have putt in her bill of complantaffor my Lord of Richmonde’s counsell.
- 1856, the Rev. F. R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., “Examynatyons Towcheynge Cokeye More”, inRemains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 37 (Chetham Society), page 20:
- Theyn he and v otherpsons yt ys to wytt Jħn Walker Wyllyā Haslű Thomas ffleccher Perys Holt ƿ Rog’ Leyu’ testefyed this mat’ for thrweaffor me lord the Justys of Lanchastr.
1502, James Raine, John William Clay,Testamenta Eboracensia: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc.[1], volume IV, York, England: J. B. Nichols, published1869, page126:if it please Gode, my body to be buryed in Seynt Trinite kyrke in Hull,affor the Sacrament, of the north syd of the yle
- Andrew E. Benjamin; Peter Osborne (1994),Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience, Routledge, page128: “The Latin prefixad-, and accordinglyaf-, marks the opening of an act, and of an act of opening, as in the very appropriate example ofaffor, meaning ‘addressing’, for example when taking leave.”
Fromad- +for(“speak, say”).
affor (present infinitiveaffārī,perfect activeaffātussum);first conjugation,deponent
- tospeak to,address,accost,implore
- (in a passive sense) tofix the use of theauspices, to bedestined
- tobidfarewell to thedead, take the lastadieu
- In Classical Latin,affor was exceedingly rare, and mostly found in the third-person present indicative, with many other present indicative forms not being attested, or attested only once.
- “affor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “affor”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
affor
- before,afore
- 1526-1534, John Hackett, as quoted inThe Letters of Sir John Hackett (1971, West Virginia University Library):
[I] know somwhat from other partyys that imagenys by som prewe conwoyanssis that is in demenyng be twyx France and Spaeyn thataffor the monyth of Augost next comyng that ther salbe peace maede betwyx the Emperor and the Frenche Kyng.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
- 7 April 1565 William Chambers,Charters and Documents Relating to the Burgh of Peebles (1872, Scottish Burgh Records Society), page 299:
The counsall ordanis the scuill master to provid ane doctur to tech the scuill, and ilk honest man that hes bairnis to gif the said doctur his meit about, and ordanis the said master to wait himself better on the bairnis nor he doidaffor tyme as he will andssur to thame thairvpon.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
- 17C, William R. Boyd,Calendar of the State Papers related to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 1547-1603:
- ... hagbuttares on horsbak com to this towne of Stryviling quhair all the nobilite vas assemblit, enterit vytin the towneaffor any vytin knew of them.
1867,Ledger of Andrew Halyburton, Scotland: H. M. General Register House, page214:Item in Jun annoaffor writyn, rassauit fra W. Hoper for fynans that my Lord maid wt hys fadir 500 ducatis.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
