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Definition of First of all
1. Adverb. Before anything else. "First we must consider the garter snake"
Definition of First of all
1. Adverb. (context: sequence idiomatic) firstly; before anything else. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Of All
Literary usage of First of all
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... addressed to any churches whatever founded in the pagan world. this leads us
first of all to try to ascertain the object of the letter to the Ephesians. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"... I must first of all in general premise, that, in the time of our Saxon ancestors,
there was no 2. The supreme court. 3. The circuit courts. 4. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The Petrine Gospel. own experience in Une with Peter's, and coincides with the
remnants and allusions in the Gospel narrative of how first of all " the Lord ..."
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