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fyrmest

  • adjective
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fyrmest, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§446; §447;
In l. 5 for Cot. 153 substitute Wrt. Voc. ii. 67, 7, and add:
marking order in time
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  • Hé tó fulluhte heora fyrmest beáh,

    • Hml. S. 10, 150.

  • Seó bóc ys geháten Genesis, . . . for þám þe heó ys firmest bóca,

    • Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 2, 34.
marking order in rank, importance.
of persons
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  • Maurus wæs fyrmest muneca tó ðám mǽran Benedicte,

    • Hml. S. 6, 51.

  • Nembroð fyrmest wæs æt þǽre getimbrunge þǽre byrig Babilonian

    Nemroth condendae Babyloniae auctor exstiterat,

    • Angl. vii. 40, 380.

  • On þám geférscipe wǽran þá fyrmestan Mellitus, . . . Rufianus,

    • Chr. 995
      • ;
    • P. 128, 32.
of things
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  • On þám fyrmestum stówum ealles his anwealdes,

    • Lch. iii. 440, 12.
marking order in merit,
excellent
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  • Hú se láreów sceal beón on his weorcum fyrmest (praecipuus). Se láreów sceal bión on his weorcum heálic (praecipuus),

    • Past. 81, 1.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “fyrmest.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/46758.

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  • fyrmest, adj.

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