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The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

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• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• ANTIPHONARY
  A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• VESPERS
  One of the little hours of the Breviary. The evening song or service. Sicilian vespers. See under Sicilian, a.
• ANTIPHONE
  The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.
• ANTIPHONER
  A book of antiphons. Chaucer.
• ANTIPHON
  1. A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone. 2. A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• ANTIPHONIC
  Antiphonal.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• ANTIPHONY
  1. A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing. 2. An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony.
• ANTIPHONAL
  Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• DOUBLE FIRST
  A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics. One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.