What does betime mean?
Betime means (intransitive, archaic) To occur; betide..
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/bɪˈtaɪm/ · verb
(intransitive, archaic) To occur; betide..
Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs be fitted.
Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help."
Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime, Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall.
Use betime when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Betime means (intransitive, archaic) To occur; betide..
Common synonyms include come to pass, transpire.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs be fitted.
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