Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FIRST'FRUIT, or FIRST'FRUITS
FIRST'FRUIT, or FIRST'FRUITS, n.
- The fruit or produce first matured and collected in any season. Of these the Jews made an oblation to God, as an acknowledgment of his sovereign dominion.
- The first profits of any thing. In the church of England, the profits of every spiritual benefice for the first year. Encyc.
- The first or earliest effect of any thing, in a good or bad sense; as, the first-fruits of grace in the heart, or the first-fruits of vice.
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