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  • adjective Obsolete form of first.

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Examples

  • At the fyrste, she beyng so sodaynlye asked, dyd not well remember any such house but within a whyle, wel aduisiyng her self, she sayd: In dede (quoth she) I do nowe remember that I haue suche a place.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • In the fyrste parte is showne, the vnsufferable abuse, of a lewde Magistrate: The vertuous behauiours of a chaste ladye: The vncontrowled leawdenes of a fauored Curtisan.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005

  • And thanne un to the Castel Emaus; and thanne unto Mounte Joye: and from thenne, pylgrymes mowen fyrste se un to Jerusalem.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And thanne un to the Castel Emaus; and thanne unto Mounte Joye: and from thenne, pylgrymes mowen fyrste se un to Jerusalem.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • ¶ So the ende whyche is laste in effecte, and fyrste in intencion, loketh vpon the gettinge of profites, increase, and cõfirmacion of them, and also vpon them, eschuynge of disprofites, diminyshynge, or puttyng them awaye.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • [Sidenote: Epenthesis.] _Interpositio_, when a letter is added betwene the fyrste sillable of a word and the laste, as: Relligiõ for religion, relliques for reliques.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • And fyrste of euerye thinge there be foure causes, efficient, materiall, formall and finall.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • Of these thynges that we put in eloquucion, lette thys be the fyrste care, to speake euidentlye after the dignitye and nature of thynges, and to vtter suche wordes, whych as Cicero sayth in hys oratour, no man may iustely reprehende.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • As oute of lytle springs ariseth greate fluddes: so now these preceptes of grammer finyshed, and the fyrste order of the Rethorical figures: We nowe come vnto that greate declaracion of eloquence, called of

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • The fyrste called _Donysis_, or intencion, and some call it imaginacion, wherby feare, anger, madnes, hatered, enuye, and lyke other perturbacions of mynde is shewed and described, as in Ciceros inuectiues.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

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