Fore-mǽre

Según el Diccionario de Inglés Antiguo:

fore-mǽre

Add: , for-mǽre. (1) of persons:--Sum swíðe ǽnlic wer and foremǽre quidam spectabilis vir, Gr. D. 307, 1. Ꝥ wæs swíðe foremǽre man for Gode, and his gód wæs swíðe gecýðed, Bl. H. 217, 2. Þus heálices and ðus foremǽres úres mundboran láre folgian, 169, 17. Ꝥ mycele and ꝥ foremǽre bearn, Lch. iii. 428, 21. Wítgan myccle and foremǽre, Bl. H. 161, 13. Þá federas scealon beón foremǽre on andgite, on þylde, on gesceáde (omnibus rebus excelsi), R. Ben. 137, 25. (2) of things, (a) material:--On þǽre dúne wæs gefyrn foremǽre templ, Hml. S. 3, 236. Þæt wæs foremǽrost receda, B. 309. (b) non-material:--Is ꝥ seó foremǽre gebyrd Sancte Ióhannes, Bl. H. 161, 6. Foremǽran (foræmeran, MS.; fore mǽran ?) ob potiorem (virginitatis gloriam, Ald. 58, 24. Cf. potiorem mǽran, An. Ox. 4153), Wrt. Voc. ii. 63, 7. fore-mære