onetime adj : belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), once(a), onetime(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)]

English

Etymology

From one+time.

Adjective

1. Former.
   • 1891: Howard Pyle, Men of Iron http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=535313780&tag=Pyle,+Howard:+Men+of+Iron,+1891&query=+onetime&id=PylMeno

     "Nay," said he, stoutly, "I be no Lord and I be no Prince, but I be as good as thou. For am I not the son of thy onetime very true comrade and thy kinsman...?

   • 2004: The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report/Chapter_4

     A onetime special...forces officer, he had worked with Albright when she was ambassador to the United Nations and had served on the NSC staff with Clarke.

2. For a single instance.
   • 1896: Freeman Otis Willey, The Laborer and the Capitalist http://books.google.com/books?vid=0DepZl9HZ1Dsvoo-CTv&id=YM0N52WEH5kC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=onetime+date:0-1900&as_brr=1

     So far as manufacturers, traders, and lawyers use the savings banks, they are very generally of the poorer classes; and these probably own a great majority of the larger onetime deposits.

   • 2004: The 9-11 Commission, 9/11 Commission Report http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report/Chapter_6

     The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase)...

   • 2005: ICCSA 2005, Computational Science And Its Applications http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN3540258604&id=1rbSCdMHlG8C&pg=PA526&lpg=PA526&dq=%22onetime+password%22&sig=ZxNWC2yvwxZlpyN9ktpqC49G8tk

     One of the key characteristics of the proposed onetime password protocol is that attacker cannot use password because it changes every time.

ancient, bygone, early, erstwhile, fore, former, immemorial, late, old, olden, once, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, recent, sometime, then, whilom