Apprime, fiue per D. Adprimè, pen. prod. Aduerbium intensiuum. Ter, Apprimè in vita vtile. Very profitable.Apprimè doctus homo. Varro. Very well learned.Id apprimé rectissimé dicitur. Cicero. That is ercelleutly well.
Apprimo, ápprimis pen. cor. appressi, appressum apprimere ex Ad & Premo compositum. Plin To presse or put harde to.Apprimere aliquid corpori. Plin. To thrust to the body.Apprimere carnes ad ossa. Plin. To squise or presse to.
ap-prīmus (better adp-), a, um, adj. (ad intens.), the very first; only once in Liv. Andron.: Ibidemque vir summus adprimus Patroclus, Gell. 6, 7, 11.—Hence, ap-prīmē (adp-), adv., first of all, before all, especially, exceedingly, very (most freq. in ante- and post-class. per.; in the class. per. only in Nep. Att. 13, 4; for in Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32, the reading should be a primo; v. Madv. ad h. l.; syn.: in primis, praecipue, ante omnia); with adjj. and verbs.A. With adjj.: adprime nobilis, Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 6; so Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 30: adprime probus, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 30: adprime probo (genere), id. Trin. 2, 2, 92: utile, Ter. And. 1, 1, 34: obsequens, id. Hec. 2, 2, 5 (vehementissime, Don.): adprime doctus, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 17: adprime boni, Nep. Att. 13, 3.—Once with the sup.: adprime summo genere gnatus, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 7, 11, 7.— B. With verbs (post-class.): adprime potuit obtingere Socrati, App. de Deo Socr. fin.; so id. Flor. 3 (in Verg. G. 2, 134, the reading of Servius and Arus. Mess. p. 214 Lind. is: flos apprima tenax; apprima being here used as adv., like acerba, acuta al.; for which, however, the best MSS. and editt. have ad prima; v. Wagn. and Rib. ad h. l.).