first personn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌfəːs(t) ˈpəːsn/, U.S.

/ˌfərs(t) ˈpərs(ə)n/

Forms: see first adj., adv., and n.² and person n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: first adj., person n.

Etymology: < first adj. + person n., after classical Latin prīma persōna (Quintilian, with reference to verbs in sense A. 2; in post-classical Latin also from 4th cent. in grammarians with reference to pronouns, and from early 3rd cent. in Tertullian in theological use in sense A. 1).With use in sense A. 1 compare slightly earlier second person n. at second adj. and n.² Compounds 1.

A. n.

1. Theology. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun]

fatherOE

fatherheada1425

first person?a1450

omniparent1609

?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 15 (MED) Fyrst þey trow in þe Fadyr, for he ys fyrst persone.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 5 The first personne in godheid is the father cœlestiall.

1656 H. 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.

1712 S. Clarke Script. Doctr. of Trinity ii. 243 The Father (or First Person) Alone is Self-existent, Underived, Unoriginated, Independent.

1829 Hopkinsian Mag. June 419 The writer takes for granted, that by the word Father here, Christ means the first person in the Trinity; to the exclusion of the second and third.

1851 Internat. 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.

1929 PMLA 44 136 The poet had fallen into the heresy of holding the Third greater than the First Person of the Trinity.

1999 Providence (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.

a. 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. Frequently with indication of number, tense, or mood as postmodifier.

ΚΠ

c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 36 Ego and nos for the fyrste person, tu and vos for the secunde.

a1500 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 143 Thys verbe ibimus is þe fyrst persone, for the fyrst persone ys more than the secundis or the thryd.

1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. B.vii^v The verbe shalbe the fyrst persone.

1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 19^v Giue the terminations of the first Persons of the Actiue voice alone.

1755 S. Johnson Gram. Eng. Tongue in Dict. The possessive of the first person is my, mine, our, ours.

1823 D. Scot Murray's Hist. European Langs. II. 375 The Alamannic first person plural.

a1831 Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 42/1 When we read Euclid, we find neither first person nor second in any part of his whole Work.

1864 T. 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.

1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 146 Ain't is already tolerably respectable in the first person..‘ain't I in this?’

1934 W. Lewis Men without Art (1987) i. i. 27 The sort of First-person-singular that Hemingway invariably invokes is a dull-witted, bovine, monosyllabic simpleton.

1944 H. P. Houghton Basque Verb 17 The first person of the seventeenth set being dakar-ki-otet, its plural can be formed only by the intercalation of a z.

1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) ii. 30 The inflection, the o ending of the word amo, tells us that the meaning is ‘I love’—first person, singular, present tense, active voice, indicative mood.

b. in the first person: using this class of pronouns or verb forms; in Literary Criticism with reference to a narrative form or voice in which the first person pronoun (usually the singular) is used to relate a story. Cf. person n. 8.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adverb]

narratively1629

in the first person1663

1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours ii. 18 I am not us'd To speak in the First person.

1719 D. 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.

1795 Analyt. Rev. Feb. 166 The story is written in the first person.

1843 Graham's Mag. Oct. 188/1 To save roundabout, I'll tell the story in the first person, as it was told to me.

1880 J. Morris New Nation I. ii. 104 In Irish the verbs are quoted in the first person present indicative, thus ‘mealaim, I deceive’.

1989 Times 20 Sept. 18/2 No family saga but a slow-moving psychodrama, written in the first person.

2010 New Yorker 25 Jan. 51/2 The story is narrated in the first person by a character who looks..exactly as Gaiman did at the time.

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

1. Grammar. Designating a pronoun, inflection, or form that expresses the first person.

ΚΠ

1751 G. Sharpe Two Diss. i. 59 The first person pronoun.

1836 A. Allen Etymol. Anal. Lat. Verbs 253 The first-person-ending is m in Latin as in Greek.

1853 Gospel Mag. Sept. 432/2 It is very desirable the said prayer-offerer should learn to drop the first person pronoun.

1971 G. Mussies Morphol. Koine Greek v. 74 First person verbs are usually more frequent than second person verbs.

1991 Lit. & 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.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Feb. 22/4 Keller decides not to use the first-person pronoun to refer to herself between the ages of nineteen months and seven years.

2. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > told from particular point of view

first person1898

dimensionalized1973

1898 Chap-Book 8 332/1 The first person point of view was peculiarly ill-adapted to the plot Mr. Weyman had here in mind.

1907 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 5 Oct. 601/1 There are comedies and farces, stories told in letters, intimate first person narratives, journals.

1927 W. E. Peck Shelly I. ix. 387 The encounter of the first person narrator, early in the story, with a stranger of mystery.

1952 Times 17 May 8/6 She uses much the same prose idiom as those other books—the first-person narrative with the Hemingway touch.

1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iii. 102 A first-person participant-narrator uses figurative language to represent an event in terrific kinesis.

2009 New Yorker 16 Mar. 104/1 Most of the narration is not just first person but on-the-moment, and therefore unglazed by memory.

3. Designating a computer game in which the player's view of the action is as though through the eyes of the protagonist; frequently 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.

ΚΠ

1981 N.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’.

1990 CU 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.

1994 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 2 Sept. 4 d/1 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.

1997 Web 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.

1999 Empire Dec. 168/1 It still looks dazzling: silky smooth, first person 3D shoot-'em-up (Doom is its grandad).

2004 B. Osgerby Youth Media ix. 157 The development of games played from a first-person perspective.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	first person
释义	first personn.adj. Brit. /ˌfəːs(t) ˈpəːsn/, U.S. /ˌfərs(t) ˈpərs(ə)n/ Forms: see first adj., adv., and n.² and person n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: first adj., person n. Etymology: < first adj. + person n., after classical Latin prīma persōna (Quintilian, with reference to verbs in sense A. 2; in post-classical Latin also from 4th cent. in grammarians with reference to pronouns, and from early 3rd cent. in Tertullian in theological use in sense A. 1).With use in sense A. 1 compare slightly earlier second person n. at second adj. and n.² Compounds 1. A. n. 1. Theology. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun] fatherOE fatherheada1425 first person?a1450 omniparent1609 ?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 15 (MED) Fyrst þey trow in þe Fadyr, for he ys fyrst persone. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 5 The first personne in godheid is the father cœlestiall. 1656 H. 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. 1712 S. Clarke Script. Doctr. of Trinity ii. 243 The Father (or First Person) Alone is Self-existent, Underived, Unoriginated, Independent. 1829 Hopkinsian Mag. June 419 The writer takes for granted, that by the word Father here, Christ means the first person in the Trinity; to the exclusion of the second and third. 1851 Internat. 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. 1929 PMLA 44 136 The poet had fallen into the heresy of holding the Third greater than the First Person of the Trinity. 1999 Providence (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. a. 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. Frequently with indication of number, tense, or mood as postmodifier. ΚΠ c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 36 Ego and nos for the fyrste person, tu and vos for the secunde. a1500 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 143 Thys verbe ibimus is þe fyrst persone, for the fyrst persone ys more than the secundis or the thryd. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. B.vii^v The verbe shalbe the fyrst persone. 1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 19^v Giue the terminations of the first Persons of the Actiue voice alone. 1755 S. Johnson Gram. Eng. Tongue in Dict. The possessive of the first person is my, mine, our, ours. 1823 D. Scot Murray's Hist. European Langs. II. 375 The Alamannic first person plural. a1831 Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 42/1 When we read Euclid, we find neither first person nor second in any part of his whole Work. 1864 T. 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. 1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 146 Ain't is already tolerably respectable in the first person..‘ain't I in this?’ 1934 W. Lewis Men without Art (1987) i. i. 27 The sort of First-person-singular that Hemingway invariably invokes is a dull-witted, bovine, monosyllabic simpleton. 1944 H. P. Houghton Basque Verb 17 The first person of the seventeenth set being dakar-ki-otet, its plural can be formed only by the intercalation of a z. 1994 J. Edwards Multilingualism (1995) ii. 30 The inflection, the o ending of the word amo, tells us that the meaning is ‘I love’—first person, singular, present tense, active voice, indicative mood. b. in the first person: using this class of pronouns or verb forms; in Literary Criticism with reference to a narrative form or voice in which the first person pronoun (usually the singular) is used to relate a story. Cf. person n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adverb] narratively1629 in the first person1663 1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours ii. 18 I am not us'd To speak in the First person. 1719 D. 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. 1795 Analyt. Rev. Feb. 166 The story is written in the first person. 1843 Graham's Mag. Oct. 188/1 To save roundabout, I'll tell the story in the first person, as it was told to me. 1880 J. Morris New Nation I. ii. 104 In Irish the verbs are quoted in the first person present indicative, thus ‘mealaim, I deceive’. 1989 Times 20 Sept. 18/2 No family saga but a slow-moving psychodrama, written in the first person. 2010 New Yorker 25 Jan. 51/2 The story is narrated in the first person by a character who looks..exactly as Gaiman did at the time. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). 1. Grammar. Designating a pronoun, inflection, or form that expresses the first person. ΚΠ 1751 G. Sharpe Two Diss. i. 59 The first person pronoun. 1836 A. Allen Etymol. Anal. Lat. Verbs 253 The first-person-ending is m in Latin as in Greek. 1853 Gospel Mag. Sept. 432/2 It is very desirable the said prayer-offerer should learn to drop the first person pronoun. 1971 G. Mussies Morphol. Koine Greek v. 74 First person verbs are usually more frequent than second person verbs. 1991 Lit. & 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. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Feb. 22/4 Keller decides not to use the first-person pronoun to refer to herself between the ages of nineteen months and seven years. 2. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > told from particular point of view first person1898 dimensionalized1973 1898 Chap-Book 8 332/1 The first person point of view was peculiarly ill-adapted to the plot Mr. Weyman had here in mind. 1907 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 5 Oct. 601/1 There are comedies and farces, stories told in letters, intimate first person narratives, journals. 1927 W. E. Peck Shelly I. ix. 387 The encounter of the first person narrator, early in the story, with a stranger of mystery. 1952 Times 17 May 8/6 She uses much the same prose idiom as those other books—the first-person narrative with the Hemingway touch. 1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iii. 102 A first-person participant-narrator uses figurative language to represent an event in terrific kinesis. 2009 New Yorker 16 Mar. 104/1 Most of the narration is not just first person but on-the-moment, and therefore unglazed by memory. 3. Designating a computer game in which the player's view of the action is as though through the eyes of the protagonist; frequently 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. ΚΠ 1981 N.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’. 1990 CU 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. 1994 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 2 Sept. 4 d/1 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. 1997 Web 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. 1999 Empire Dec. 168/1 It still looks dazzling: silky smooth, first person 3D shoot-'em-up (Doom is its grandad). 2004 B. Osgerby Youth Media ix. 157 The development of games played from a first-person perspective. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.?a1450
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