Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- First-fruits. Also spelled
premice .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural obsolete First fruits.
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- noun obsolete First fruits.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Prices man Mecany called to say Price would not take the house at the price offered yeasterday that if he could have the whole premices for $75 he would take it.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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The premices of the corn crop (wheat, barley, sometimes lentils) were generally reserved to the deity; so also among certain tribes the first milk and butter of the year.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The inferrence therefore deduced from those premices are that the best and most Practicable rout across the Continent is by way of the Missouri (falls of Missouri) to the entrance of Dearborn's river or near that place; from thence to flathead (Clarks) river
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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The inferrence therefore deduced from those premices are that the best and most Practicable rout across the
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Certain premices can be accepted for the sake of argument.
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And this Ia? iXy in Englilh, a charger, or large platter, was yearly filled with all forts of fruits, which were offered to the gods at their feftivals, as the premices, or firft-gatherings.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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