Brewer's: Ci-devant

(French). Former, of times gone by. As Ci-devant governori.e. once a governor, but no longer so, Ci-devant philosophers means philosophers of former days.

“The appellation of mistress put her in mind of her ci-devant abigailship.” —Jane Porter: Thaddeus of Warsaw, chap. xxi.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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