Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English spelling of
prime .
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Examples
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May 16, 2009 at 3:43 pm butt ! ai bet dey iz pryme!
PUPPY EYES - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I think this be pryme example of early b0rg teknology
Warmth - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Iyf yu watches teh BooB Tube enuff, speshully teh politikal adn fynanshul channuls, furrgit bowt pryme timeses yu getz teh brayne-fayde.
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And therfore whan it is gret hete, the Pissemyres resten hem in the erthe, from pryme of the day in to noon: and than the folk of the con tree taken camayles, dromedaries and hors and other bestes and gon thidre, and chargen hem in alle haste that thei may.
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And therfore whan it is gret hete, the Pissemyres resten hem in the erthe, from pryme of the day in to noon: and than the folk of the con tree taken camayles, dromedaries and hors and other bestes and gon thidre, and chargen hem in alle haste that thei may.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And faste he swoor, that it was passed pryme, 1095
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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Thie geason [137] wronges bee reyne [138] ynto theyre pryme; 120
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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We have had nineteen Sail of us at one time in ye Road, so that ships that used to carry pryme slaves off is now forced to take any that comes.
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898
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And this obs_er_vance vse ye eu_er_y day, w_i_t_h_ pryme & owers w_i_t_h_-owt drede.
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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