Ci-devant (French)
.Former, of times gone by. As Ci-devant governor—i.e. once a governor, but no longer so. Ci-devant philosophers means philosophers of former days.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.