Erst
[ә:st]
Definition
(adv.) First.
(adv.) Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.
Edited by Enrico
Definition
adv. at first: formerly.—adv. Erst′while formerly.
Typist: Tim
Examples
- My books would now, as erst, be unsafe with you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with these ministers, but in the shed of the wood-sawyer, erst a mender of roads. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The choked old fountain, where erst the gladiators washed, might have leaped into life again to honour the ceremony. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And the child lulled the parent, as the parent had erst lulled the child. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Tim