Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
foremost .
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Examples
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First and formest, though, is because one of the main issues that we have seen being addressed by the U.S. administration has been Iran's influence in Iraq.
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And that desert and that place of darkness dure from this coast unto Paradise terrestrial, where that Adam, our formest father, and Eve were put, that dwelled there but little while: and that is towards the east at the beginning of the earth.
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Gate; [300] and then the said Maister of Ruthven, with his cumpany, stowtlie recountred thame, and so rudlye repulsed the formest, that such as war behynd gave back.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Si forme lage þ̵ is si ȝécénde lage. þe god sett formest an þes ma {n} nes heorte. þ̵ is þat non man ne don oðere. buton þ̵ þe he wolde þ̵ me ded [e] hi {m}. ⁊ don his nixta {n} al þ̵ he wolde þ̵ me ded [e] hi {m}.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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But he began to rise and inside of five years he was one of the formest men among his brethren, and from that day till his death he was the most prominent and influential man in that body.
The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived, 1912
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Till Thou who formest me findest me too a task, 10
0 284. The Idler by Jones Very. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900
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Chorus I: "O star, emerging great, through thy light, Thou thyself formest thy own limbs."
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879
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What thou with holy hand formest, what thou with holy mouth speakest,
The Poems of Schiller — Third period Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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What thou with holy hand formest, what thou with holy mouth speakest,
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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I tooke great notice of it, as I mentioned in my formest voyage, which made me have mind to goe thither againe, by the reason peace was concluded among them.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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