† Firstship. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. [f. FIRST a. + -SHIP.] The position of being first.

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1632.  Lynde, Via Tuta, 39. Peter had a Primacy of Order, that is, a First-ship among the Apostles.

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1661.  Fuller, Worthies Suffolk (1662), III. 67. Two Firstships met in this Man [Necton], for he Handselled the House-Convent.… Secondly, He was the first Carmelite, who in Cambridge took the Degree of Doctor in Divinity.

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