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first person, n. and a.
Brit. |ˌfəːst ˈpəːsn|, U.S. |ˌfərst ˈpərs(ə)n|
[‹ first adj. + person n.]
A. n.
1. Theol. Also with capital initials. God the Father, as one of the three modes of being of the Godhead which together constitute the Trinity. Cf. person n. 6a. In later use chiefly First Person of the Trinity.
a1450(?c 1400) Lay Folks Catechism (Lamb.) 15 Fyrst þey trow in þe Fadyr, for he ys fyrst persone. 1588A. King tr. P. Canisius Catechisme 5 The first personne in godheid is the father cœlestiall. 1656H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 86 It was more congruent for the word, the second person to be incarnate..then the first person..or the third. 1712S. Clarke Script. Doctr. of Trinity ii. 243 The Father (or First Person) Alone is Self-existent, Underived, Unoriginated, Independent. 1851Internat. Mag. 1 Feb. 294/2 The painting in the arch at the back, representing the first person of the Trinity, supporting the crucified Saviour, angels at each side censing, and others bearing shields. 1929PMLA 44 136 The poet had fallen into the heresy of holding the Third greater than the First Person of the Trinity. 1999Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 18 June 5 c, The conference is in keeping with Pope John Paul's call to the world's Catholics to prepare for the millennium by meditating this year on the First Person of the Trinity, God the Father.
2. Grammar. The class of personal pronouns and corresponding verb forms which denotes or indicates the person speaking (or, for plural forms, the group to which the speaker belongs); one of these pronouns or verb forms. Also (esp. in Literary Criticism): a narrative form or voice in which this class of pronouns is used to relate a story. Cf. person n. 8.
c1450in S. B. Meech Early Treat. in Eng. conc. Lat. Gram. (1935) 108 Ego and nos for the fyrste person, tu and vos for the secunde. 1520R. Whitinton Vulgaria (1527) 8b, Ye verbe shal be ye fyrst persone. 1612J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 19v, Giue the terminations of the first Persons of the Actiue voice alone. 1663S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours ii. 18, I am not us'd To speak in the First person. 1719D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 43, I shall no longer trouble the Story with a Relation in the first Person, which will put me to the Expence of ten thousand Said I's, and Said he's. 1755Johnson Gram. Eng. Tongue in Dict. The possessive of the first person is my, mine, our, ours. a1831Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 42/1 When we read Euclid, we find neither first person nor second in any part of his whole Work. 1864T. H. Key in Reader 4 June 717/1, I have thus endeavoured to show, in defiance of the Sanskritists, that the first person of this pronoun derives its nominative from the same base as its other cases. 1919H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 146 Ain't is already tolerably respectable in the first person..‘ain't I in this?’ 1991Lit. & Ling. Computing 6 181/2 Only ‘true-plural’ first-person forms were counted; results for that variable can be assessed in the knowledge that they truly represent more than one person.
B. adj. (attrib.).
1. Literary Criticism. Of, designating, or written in a narrative form or voice which uses the first person, typically one in which a protagonist relates events as a participant or observer.
1907N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 5 Oct. 601/1 There are comedies and farces, stories told in letters, intimate first person narratives, journals, to say nothing of the mass of non-fiction and stories for children. 1927W. E. Peck Shelly I. ix. 387 The encounter of the first person narrator, early in the story, with a stranger of mystery, his reception of him, clandestine and unknown to his wife. 1952Times 17 May 8/6 She uses much the same prose idiom as those other books—the first-person narrative with the Hemingway touch. 1989R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iii. 102 A first-person participant-narrator uses figurative language to represent an event in terrific kinesis, the squall that threatens to overwhelm the whaling boats. 1997Interzone July 56/1, I don't mind Gallicisms in the dialog..but they should not impose awkwardness on the narrative, even in a first-person novel.
2. Designating a computer game in which the player's view of the action is as though through the eyes of the protagonist; freq. in first-person shooter (cf. shooter n.), first-person shoot-'em-up (cf. shoot-'em-up n.). Also: designating a player's point of view in such a computer game.
1981N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Oct. 111/1 Atari brought out Battle Zone, which remains the state of the art in video games. The idea came out of a ‘brainstorming’ session conducted among Atari's employees. Someone suggested a ‘first-person tank game’. 1990CU Amiga Apr. 34/2 Tower of Babel..requires puzzle-solving..using three robot spiders... These can be viewed from first person perspective, or from behind. 1994Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 2 Sept. p1 d, This first-person shooter can be compared to the popular ‘Doom’ game.., but is mixed with even more realistic graphics and more great Star Wars plot lines. 1997Web Aug. 51/3 Outlaws, the best..first-person computer game faithful to the look and feel of Sergio Leone's classic 1960s-era spaghetti westerns. 1999Empire Dec. 168/1 It still looks dazzling: silky smooth, first person 3D shoot-'em-up (Doom is its grandad). |