whilom

At some time in the past; formerly, once upon a time.

Lo I the man, vvhoſe Muſe vvhilome did maske, / As time her taught, in lowly Sheapards vveeds, / Am novv enforſt a far unfitter taske, […]

VVith ſuch an invention [a sumptuary law] did Zelevcus vvhilome correct the corrupted maners of the Locrines.

At times, on occasion, sometimes.

Wald ze be lov'd, this lessone mon ze leir; / Flie vhylome Love, and it will folou thee.

Preceded by of or this: for some time that has passed.

This money I do give ye, becauſe of vvhilom / You have bin thought my ſonne, and by myſelfe too, […]

At some time in the past; former, sometime.

On the same day, two notable Female Prisoners are also put in ward there: Dame Dubarry and Josephine Beauharnais! Dame whilom Countess Dubarry, Unfortunate-female, had returned from London; they snatched her, not only as Ex-harlot of a whilom Majesty, and therefore suspect; but as having 'furnished the Emigrants with money.'

The play must have appeared during the closing years of the Peloponnesian war, and must have been fresh in men's memory, when, as Plutarch tells us (Life of Lysander, c. 15), the deliberations about the fate of conquered Athens were determined by a Phocian actor singing the opening monody, which moved all to pity by its picture of a whilom princess reduced to miserable poverty.

Of a person: deceased, late.

During the same time that; while.

Subjects their King, the King his Subjects greets, / VVhilome the Scepter and the Plough-ſtaffe meets.

Up to the time that; till, until.