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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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Definition:

In the first place; first in order.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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In the first place (used to introduce a list of items or considerations).

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This inventory I afterwards translated into English, and is, word for word, as follows:

“Imprimis: In the right coat-pocket of the great man-mountain” (for so I interpret the words quinbus flestrin,) “after the strictest search, we found only one great piece of coarse-cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your majesty’s chief room of state.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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Let us see what they say:

Imprimus. That certain wags in Rotterdam have certain especial antipathies to certain burgomasters and astronomers.

Don’t understand at all.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)