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or(2) (iou)



or adverb, preposition, & conjunction1. Now arch. & dial. or Scot.

A. adverb.
Early, soon; = AIR adverb 2, ERE adverb 1. OE-LME.
Sooner, earlier; = ERE adverb 2. Only in ME.
On a former occasion; formerly, before; = AIR adverb 1, ERE adverb 3. ME-L15.
b. Before something else, in the first place. Only in ME.
b. preposition. Before (in time); = ERE preposition. Freq. in adverbial phrs. or long, or now, etc. OE.
G. Cavendish It was midnight or they departed.
C. conjunction.
Of time: before. Also or e'er, or ever, or than, or that. ME.
T. Wilson Wil you drink or you go?
Of preference: rather than; = ERE conjunction 2. ME.
After a comparative or other: than. ME.