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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Erst \Erst\ ([~e]rst), adv [Orig. superlative of ere; AS
[=ae]rest. See {Ere}.] [Archaic]
1. First --Chaucer.
2. 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.
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