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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1682-1692
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Superfine, adj. [Late ME (once) and e.m.E superfyne (Lydgate), superfine (1575); Fine adj.] a. Of a commodity: Very fine in quality. b. Of non-material things: Extremely refined or elegant. —a. 1682 New Mills Manuf. 40.
John Rae … when he gives out wool … to sett down a letter for a distinction that is C for course M for midleing F for fine and S.F. for super fine —b. 1692 Presbyterian Eloquence (1694) 43.
These are the sweetest flowers of our author's presbyterial rhetorick … which being quite contrary to the spirit and genious of Christ, must be allowed to pass for new-minted, superfine presbyterian gospel
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