firsthoodt (fersthud)

[ So that in election Christ held the primacy, the first hood . Good win, Works, 1. vi. firstling (férst'ling), n. and a. [ first + -ling1 .] I. n. 1. The first produce or offspring: applied to beasts. A shepherd next, fiscal I have given ye two or three notes of him out of his Title page; by which his firstlings feare not to gue e boldly at his whole lumpe, for that gue e will not faile ye. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. II. a. First produced. All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God. Deut. xv. 19. firstly (fèrst'li), adv. First; in the first place; before anything else. Christ shed his blood, by 's wound to save us, And salve the wound th old serpent firstly gave us. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas. First (for I detest your ridiculous and most pedantic neologism of firstly ) - first the shilling for which I have given a receipt; secondly two skeins of suitable thread. De Quincey , Spanish Nun, § 5. firstne (fèrst'nes), n . The quality or state of being first. [Rare.] When I give (as he acknowledges) a firstne of precedency and presidency to the Pope, he tells me he is confident I know not how much more is allowed him by the universal consent of all Catholicks, as of divine institution, whatever I may have read in particular authors. IMG:content-1375.png:[blocks in formation] Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. Herr George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, v. Entirely first - rate work is so quiet and natural that there can be no dispute over it; you may not particularly admire it, but you will find no fault with it. Ruskin, Lectures on Art, § 129. II. n. Something rated among the first or in the first cla ; specifically, a war-ship of the first or most powerful rating or cla .