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aprimes (1121-25)
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aprimes (1121-25)

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aprime;  auprimes  
  FEW:  primus 9,384a Gdf:  prime 1 6,405b GdfC:  prime 10,417b TL: prim 7,1860 DEAF:  prim (*)  DMF:  prime 1  TLF:  prime 1  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

adv.

first(ly) (in a sequence), before anyone or anything else: 
( MS: s.xivin )  Pur lepre au premes acoyntier Et a la distresse de alayner  Phlebotomy 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  Psalter Comment 201.486
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E vindrent enz lur eritage Dunt furent essillez a primes  Josaphaz2 49
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiv1 )  Atant vint a la sale o (=where) au primes ot esté  Purg S Pat berol (T) 833
♦for the first time: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Illoec truvames terre a primes; Aprés vint jurz a port venimes  S Jean ANTS 893
(i)dunc, ore, puis aprimes
temporalthen (and only then): 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Dunc aprimes muverez d’ici; Desque dunches sujurnerez, Puis aprimes vus an irez  S Brend mup 768, 770
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  En une biere le (=the body of BVM) colchierent. Idunc a primes s’esveillierent Icil qui devant s’endormirent  Conception wace 1570
( 1307 )  ore adeprimes resceut il vostre homage, e ore aprimes estes vous devenu son homme  YBB 33-35 Ed I 483

See also:

adeprimes 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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