abord

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D'abord -- that is, to begin with -- certain of the poetic structures are not correct and create inordinate amounts of action in the Broca's area of Christian English majors.

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  1. Arrival; approach.
  2. Manner of accosting; address; salutation. Your abord, I must tell you, was too cold and uniform. Chesterfield.
  3. To approach; accost.
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  • D'abord, regardons sur quel type de serveur le crash s'est produit: 0: kd > —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Pour ce faire, le cabinet a tout d'abord (...) [] [] [] [] —  SecuObs.com
  • D'abord -- that is, to begin with -- certain of the poetic structures are not correct and create inordinate amounts of action in the Broca's area of Christian English majors. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • At the outset he says--and as the point is important we quote from the original--"Pour la physique inorganique nous voyons d'abord, en nous conformant toujours a l'ordre de généralité et de dépendance des phénomčnes, qu'elle doit ętre partagée en deux sections distinctes, suivant qu'elle considčre les phénomčnes généraux de l'univers, ou, en particulier, ceux que présentent les corps terrestres. —  Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • Et d'abord, pour exécuter cette réforme, il faudrait centraliser le pouvoir Plus on considčre l'état de l'Irlande, et plus il semble qu'ŕ tout prendre un gouvernement central fortement constitué serait, du moins pour quelque temps, le meilleur que puisse avoir ce pays. —  England's Case Against Home Rule
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  1. Same as aboard, q. v.: see also border.
  2. from French aborder, approach: see aboard.
 

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