earstとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

earst (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of erst
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1921),^[1] Book I:

     So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right,
     And each to deadly shame would drive his foe:
     The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
     In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow,
     With which the armes, that earst so bright did show,
     Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: […]