Crossword clues for erst
erst
- Archaic "once"
- "... which __ was irksome to me": Shakespeare
- ''While'' lead-in
- Word with "while"
- The time afore
- Start for 'while'
- Opening for "while"
- Onetime, old style
- Once, but not nowadays
- Once, archaically
- Once formerly
- Old start with "while"
- Old prefix for while
- Long ago: Archaic
- Long ago, old style
- Lead-in to 'while'
- Lead-in for while
- It was attached to "while," a while back
- It may come before a "while"
- It came before "while," once
- Formerly, previously
- Formerly, in former times
- Formerly, in days of yore
- Formerly once
- Former, of old
- Former formerly
- Beginning for ''while''
- Before the present time, in the past
- Before now, in olden days
- At an earlier time, in an earlier time
- "While" prefix, once
- "While" prefix
- Word with "while," old-style
- While opener
- While beginning
- What might take a while?
- Way back when, once
- Start with "while," old
- Start for ''while''
- Root that usually takes a while?
- Previously, of old
- Previously, formerly
- Prefix with "while," once
- Prefix for ''while''
- Poetic once
- Opening for "while," once
- Opening for "while," a long while ago
- Once, old style
- Once, it meant "once"
- Once, in days past
- Once, back in the day
- Once, a while back
- Old-time adverb
- Old-style prefix with while
- Old-style prefix for while
- Old-style prefix for "while"
- Old-style opening for "while"
- Old-style "formerly"
- Old-school "old"
- Old start for "while"
- Old opening for "while"
- Old attachment to "while"
- Old attachment for "while"
- Old "while" start
- Old "formerly."
- Long ago, long, long ago
- Long ago, formerly
- Lead-in to ''while''
- Lead-in for 'while'
- It once meant "once"
- It can be on a "while"
- In time past, in time past
- In olde times
- Heretofore, old style
- Header for "while"
- Formerly(archaic )
- Formerly, to Chaucer
- Formerly, quaintly
- Formerly, in verse
- Formerly, in poems
- Formerly, in old days
- Formerly, if you're 300
- Formerly, back in the day
- Formerly, archaically
- Formerly, arch
- Formerly, an attachment to "while"
- Formerly attached to "while"
- Formerly (formerly)
- Formerly (archaic)
- Formerly ( Archaic )
- Former, in poems
- Former, at one time
- Former word for "formerly"
- Former former?
- Former attachment to "while"
- First: Ger
- Beginning for "while," at one time
- Back in the day, back in the day
- Archaic prefix for "while"
- Archaic before
- Ago, long ago
- "While" stick-on
- "While" opening of old
- "While" opener, a while back
- "While" leader of old
- "While" attachment of old
- "The even mead, that __ brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip": "Henry V"
- "Step the meek owls where ___ they ranged" (Emerson)
- ''While'' prefix
- ''... which ___ was irksome to me'' (Shakespeare)
- Once, once upon a time
- Formerly, formerly
- While opener?
- Aforetime
- Start with while
- In the past, in the past
- Formerly, once upon a time
- Once, long ago
- At one time, at one time
- Start for while
- Word with while
- While lead-in, once
- Formerly, old-style
- At first, in Frankfurt
- "Where ___ was thickest fight": Milton
- Once before?
- Once, old-style
- Lead-in to while
- Once, of old
- Originally, once
- "Step the meek fowls where ___ they ranged": Emerson
- At first, once
- Long ago, long ago
- Back then, back when
- Archaic adverb
- First, in Frankfurt
- Formerly archaic?
- Once, in old times
- Once, in the past
- Before, once before
- Once, formerly
- Formerly, in old usage
- Once, a long time ago
- "The even mead, that ___ brought sweetly forth ...": "Henry V"
- In the past, once
- Formerly, in olden days
- Previously archaic?
- Once, in former times
- "... which ___ from heat did canopy the herd": Shak.
- At one time in the past?
- Once, quaintly
- While preceder
- Long ago, once
- Formerly, in the past
- Previously, in old usage
- Beginner for a while?
- At one time, once
- German for "first"
- Way back then, way back when
- Previously, previously
- Whilom
- Once, at one time
- Formerly, in old times
- Once, in olden days
- Back when, long ago
- First: Ger.
- Former, formerly
- Formerly, of yore
- Of yore, of yore
- Hitherto, hitherto
- One-time, once
- At first, at first
- Old word before "while"
- Word combined with while
- Formerly, but not recently
- While's forerunner
- Formerly, of old
- ___ while
- Kind of while
- Before, before today
- Before, to the bard
- Before, to a bard
- Prefix for while
- Prefix for "while"
- Beginning for "while"
- Formerly, old style
- Prefix with "while"
- "While" lead-in
- Start for "while"
- It once meant once
- "While" attachment, once
- While beginning?
- Previously, once
- Formerly formerly?
- Earlier, earlier
- Before now, before now
- While opening
- Once once
- Old prefix for "while"
- It comes before "while"
- Former "formerly"
- Before, formerly
- Attachment to "while"
- Old-style "once"
- It was once, once
- Formerly, long ago
- Archaic "formerly"
- "While" beginning, once
- Word before while
- Previously, old-style
- Previously, old style
- Prefix with while
- Old beginning for "while"
- Lead-in to "while"
- It may come before a while?
- Former, old style
- Beginning for while, once
- Beginning for while
- Archaic attachment to "while"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erst \Erst\ ([~e]rst), adv. [Orig. superlative of ere; AS.
First.
--Chaucer.-
Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.
--Chaucer.Tityrus, with whose style he had erst disclaimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe.
--A. W. Ward.At erst, at first; at the beginning.
Now at erst, at this present time.
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. (context obsolete English) first. Etymology 2
adv. 1 (context obsolete English) First of all, before (some other specified thing). 2 (context obsolete English) sooner (than); before.
WordNet
adv. at a previous time; "once he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing" [syn: once, formerly, at one time, erstwhile]
Usage examples of "erst".
Pwyll wich gerade noch rechtzeitig aus, um sein rechtes Auge vor dem ersten Speerwurf zu retten.
Klassen, durch deren Beispiel angefeuert, erst recht eifrig bei der Sache sein.
Wine Merchants, and erst Head Cellarman of the cellars of Pebbleson Nephew.
Be it enough to say that once again I came to that little house in the uttermost wilderness, and there once more was the garth and the goat-house, and the trees of the forest beyond it, and the wood-lawns and the streams and all the places and things that erst I deemed I must dwell amongst for ever.
Herrschaft des Alters zu stellen in jenem Kampf, der so alt ist wie das Leben und erst mit der Welt enden wird.
Und dann erst, o Kleist, wenn Dich auch diese Lorbeern, mit der weissen Feder, nur uns Dichtern sichtbar durchflochten, wenn beide Deinen Scheitel beschatten--Wenn die liebsten Deiner Freunde nicht mehr sind-Ich weiss es, keiner von ihnen wird Dich gern ueberleben--Wenn Dein Gleim nicht mehr ist--Ausser noch in den Haenden des lehrbegierigen Knabens, und in dem Busen des sproeden Maedchens, das mit seinem Liede zu Winkel eilet-Wenn der redliche Sulzer ohne Koerper nun denkt--Hier nur noch der Vertraute eines kuenftigen Grueblers, begieriger die Lust nach Regeln zu meistern, als sie zu schmecken.
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.
Were the tidings true or false, Yet would he tell it natheless, And evermore with more increase Than it was erst.
Ich kann heute noch ihre Augen sehen, wie sie diese Puppe zum ersten Mal erblickte.
Eine schreckliche Sekunde lang dachte er, Hand und Stein seien beide verloren, bevor er sie benutzen konnte erst sie und dann sein Kopf.
In der Wurzel ist es Beduerfnis, ein kritisches Wissen um das Ideal, eine Ungenuegsamkeit, die sich ihr Koennen nicht ohne Qual erst schafft und steigert.
Staunen oder Angst oder Scheu, so, wie sie es am ersten Tag ihres Lebens getan hatte, als Goewyn sie in den Pflichten einer Ehefrau unterwiesen hatte.
Du bist zu einem Fluch heimgekehrt, der auf mich und die meinen gewartet hat seit der Nacht, in der ich zum ersten Mal mit Pwyll schlief.
On all that road our footsteps erst had been Even thus commingled, and our shadows seen Blent on the hedgerows and the water-way.
Feuer der ersten Begeisterung eines Mannes geschrieben, der an seine Mission und die Unfehlbarkeit seiner Theorien glaubt.