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adeprimes (s.xiiiex)

adeprimes (s.xiiiex)

adeprimez,  adesprimes;  adeprimer;  audeprimes  
  FEW:  primus 9,382b Gdf:  adeprimes 1,98b GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF:  prime 1 (a de prime)  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

adv.

1temporalfirstly, in the first place
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  Cesti A. adeprimes destincta les hundrés  Reis Engl1 56
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et s’il soint jugez a la mort, adunc voloms adeprimes qe nos ministres boutent hors lour femmes  BRITT i 45
( 1416 )  adeprimez jeo devyse m’alme a […]  Reg Chich ii 95
2temporalat the beginning
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  kar adeprimes quant li sire fu nez  Ancren2 10.22
( 1305-7; MS: 1330-40 )  de Dieu eit maleysoun Qe a de primes graunta tiel commissioun  Pol Songs 69.7
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  come si nous venissens a deprimer (var. v. du primer; (l. adeprimer)  Sz Med1 36
3temporalimmediately
( 1425 )  le pleintif purroit aver demurre en ley sur le plee adeprimez et donquis l’assise ussoit esté pris a comencement  Readings i 21.18
ore adeprimes
temporalthen and only then
( 1307 )  ore adeprimes resceut il vostre homage, e ore aprimes estes vous devenu son homme  YBB 33-35 Ed I 483
tut adeprimes
temporalfirst of all
( s.xiiiex; MS: c.1300 )  Tut au deprimes deyt hom oyer acounte  HENLEY2 418
( 1323 )  qe desore chescun visconte [...] endosse le brief tut a de primes  Red Bk 890

See also:

aprimes 
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adeprimes