προ-θέσμιος, -α, -ον

[in Sm.: Job.28:3, Dan.9:26 * ;]

appointed before­hand. In Attic law, as subst. (so always in cl.), ἡ π. (sc. ἡμέρα), a day appointed beforehand, a previously appointed time: Gal.4:2.†

(AS)