Yore (?), adv. [OE. ore, yare, are, AS. ge�xa0;ra;akin to ge�xa0;r a year, E. year. . See Year.]
In time long past; in old time; long since.
[Obs. or Poetic]
As it hath been of olde times yore.
Chaucer.
Which though he hath polluted oft and yore,
Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.
Spenser.
Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore."
Pope.
Where Abraham fed his flock of yore.
Keble.
© Webster 1913.