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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

Did they not

sometime

cry “All hail” to me?

Shakespeare

At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

Sometime

we see a cloud that’s dragonish,
A vapor

sometime

like a bear or lion.

Shakespeare

At one time or other hereafter;

as, I will do it

sometime

“Sometime he reckon shall.”

Chaucer.

(sŭm′tīmˊ)

Adj.

Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Our

sometime

sister, now our queen.

Shakespeare

Ion, our

sometime

darling, whom we prized.

Talfourd.

adv.

[some and time.]

Once; formerly. That fair and warlike form, in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometime march.

At one time or other hereafter. [Sometime is really a compound noun, and at is understood before it; at some time.]