Quondam

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

quondam
    adj 1: belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our
           former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her
           quondam lover" [syn: {erstwhile(a)}, {former(a)}, {old},
           {onetime(a)}, {one-time(a)}, {quondam(a)}, {sometime(a)}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Quondam \Quon"dam\ (kw[o^]n"d[a^]m), a. [L., formerly.]
   Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam
   king." --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Quondam \Quon"dam\, n.
   A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make
   them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office."
   --Latimer.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "quondam":
      ancient, bygone, early, erstwhile, fore, former, immemorial, late,
      old, olden, once, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval,
      primitive, prior, recent, sometime, then, whilom

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