LekhoriLekhoriPositioned in front of (all) others in space, most forward.
She prankes not by hir mistresse side, she preases not to bée / The foremost of the companie, as when she erst was frée.
Coming before (all) others in time.
[…] of both them, she / (By Pallas counsell) was to haue the grace / Of foremost greeting.
In front, prominently forward.
No Man hath more nicely observed our Climate, than the Bookseller who bought the Copy of this Work; He knows to a Tittle what Subjects will best go off in a dry Year, and which it is proper to expose foremost, when the Weather-glass is fallen to much Rain.
First in time.
A village in Alberta, Canada.
From Old English formest, fyrmest (“earliest, first, most prominent”), from Proto-Germanic *frumistaz, from the locative stem *fur-, *fr- + the superlative suffix *-umistaz, stem ultimately from Proto...
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c. 1618, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Old Law, London: Edward Archer, 1656, Act III, Scene 1, p. 41, Alwayes the worst goes foremost, so twill prove I hope
Most importantly.
[…] Mrs. Nickleby, with the utmost sincerity, gave vent to her sorrows after her own peculiar fashion of considering herself foremost,