1first(ly) (in a sequence), before anyone or anything else:
(
MS: s.xivin
)
Pur lepre au premes acoyntier Et a la distresse de alayner
33
♦
temporalinitially, originally, at the beginning:
(
s.xii2;
MS: c.1200
)
Les fonteines des ewes apele il le parfundece des Escritures. Dunc apparurent eles a primes
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
E vindrent enz lur eritage Dunt furent essillez a primes
49
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Atant vint a la sale o
(=where) au primes ot esté
(T) 833
♦
for the first time:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2/4
)
Illoec truvames terre a primes; Aprés vint jurz a port venimes
893
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