imprimis

American  

[im-prahy-mis, -pree-] / ɪmˈpraɪ mɪs, -ˈpri- /

adverb

1. in the first place.

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imprimis British  

/ ɪmˈpraɪmɪs /

adverb

1. archaic in the first place

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Etymology

Origin of imprimis

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin, contraction of phrase in prīmīs in the first place, above all

Example Sentences

In famossissimo illo libello magico Rasiel, quem Kabbalist� in magna veneratione habent, tria imprimis secreta alphabeta leguntur, qu� a communi Ebraicarum litterarum forma & ductu in multis abeunt.

From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by Delafield, John

Invenio in lexico græco antiquiore post alios, et Budæum imprimis, iterum iterumque reviso, nomenclaturam nimis quam fugitive allegatam; φυσέχη, poetice, pro ψυχή.

From Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

He thinks, imprimis, that James, strange as it may appear, laid himself out to be more agreeable in that letter than he would if he had written it, say, a year previously.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

In the "Gottingen Lexicon" of 1737, J. M. Gesner tells us of the Odes of Horace: "ut imprimis, quid prodesse in severioribus studiis possint, ostendat."

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)

Jam inde non belli gloria quam humanitatis cultu inter florentissimas orbis Christiani gentes imprimis floruit.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert