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Earlier

adverb
1.
Earlier in time; previously.  Synonym: before.  "As I said before" , "He called me the day before but your call had come even earlier" , "Her parents had died four years earlier" , "I mentioned that problem earlier"
2.
Comparatives of 'soon' or 'early'.  Synonym: sooner.  "Came earlier than I expected"
3.
Before now.  Synonyms: in the beginning, in the first place, originally, to begin with.
adjective
1.
(comparative and superlative of 'early') more early than; most early.  Synonym: earliest.  "His earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher" , "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"


Early

adjective
(compar. earlier; superl. earliest)
1.
At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.  "An early warning" , "Early diagnosis" , "An early death" , "Took early retirement" , "An early spring" , "Early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
2.
Being or occurring at an early stage of development.  "Early forms of life" , "Early man" , "An early computer"
3.
Belonging to the distant past.  Synonyms: former, other.  "Former generations" , "In other times"
4.
Very young.
5.
Of an early stage in the development of a language or literature.  "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"
6.
Expected in the near future.



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... likely to be at a low ebb where there is but little knowledge of, or interest in, the history of its past. I was recently impressed with this in visiting a small inland community, which was not without many events of interest in its earlier development. I failed, however, to find any connected records of the community's past or any of its people who know much of its history. So far as I could learn there had been few celebrations or community activities for ...
— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson
... latter sowings are usually the most productive, and the dye obtained from them the finest. The object for thus delaying the sowing is, that the young plants may have a more genial season for vegetation. Those who prefer sowing earlier, and yet are aware of the importance of saving the young plants as much as possible from the comparative low temperature of the season, sow some other crop with their indigo. Til, the country linseed, is good for this purpose ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... face was another form of penalty. The first mention of it occurs in A.D. 400 when Richu condemned the muraji, Hamako, to be thus branded, but whether the practice originated then or dated from an earlier period, the annals do not show. It was variously called hitae-kizamu (slicing the brow), me-saku (splitting the eyes), and so on, but these terms signified nothing worse than tattooing on the forehead or round the eyes. The Emperor Richu deemed ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
... Factbook, beginning with the 2000 edition, are available for downloading - but not browsing - on the CIA Web site. Hardcopy editions for earlier years ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... population—"Forty thousand, and growing, sir!" loyally declared those disinterested citizens engaged in the sale of remote fields of ragweed as building lots—Westville was still but half-evolved from its earlier state of an overgrown country town. It was as yet semi-pastoral, semi-urban. Automobiles and farm wagons locked hubs in brotherly embrace upon its highways; cowhide boots and patent leather shared its sidewalks. There was a stockbroker's ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott


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