The Collaborative International Dictionary
Early \Ear"ly\, a. [Compar. Earlier ([~e]r"l[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Earliest.] [OE. earlich. [root]204. See Early, adv.]
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In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
--Burke.The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them.
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Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc.
Seen in life's early morning sky.
--Keble.The forms of its earlier manhood.
--Longfellow.The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer.
--J. C. Shairp.Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English.
Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Syn: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable.
Wikipedia
Early English may refer to:
- Early English Period, a style of architecture
- Middle Ages, a medieval period of history
- Anglo-Saxons, the people
- Old English, a stage in the development of the English language
Usage examples of "early english".
Now, Hopkins's own language is very Saxon, he tends to string several English words together instead of using a single long Latin one, as most people do when they want to express a complicated thought, and he deliberately derived from the early English poets, the ones who come before Chaucer.
This is not to say that he only studied the early English of the West Midlands.
In early English times it was the day of a harvest festival, and the fruits of the field, symbolized by half loaves of bread, were consecrated at mass.
The early English name seems to have been Almande: it thus appears in the Romaunt of the Rose.
As specified in this complaint, Cyclone Seven stands 24 feet 8 inches high with an irregular base circumference of approximately 74 feet and weighs 24 tons, and in support of his allegation of public nuisance defendant cites a basic tenet of early English law defining such nuisance as that 'which obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects,' further citing such nuisance as that which injuriously affects the safety, health or morals of the public, or works some substantial annoyance, inconvenience or injury to the public' (Commonwealth v.