1. (adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.

2. (adv.) For the most part; mostly.

a fortiori ab initio ab ovo aborigine above all all in all all the more all things considered almost entirely altogether approximately as a rule as a whole as an approximation as per usual as things go as usual at first at large at the start before everything broadly broadly speaking by and large commonly customarily dominantly effectually especially essentially even ever so first first and foremost first of all first thing firstly from the beginning generally generally speaking habitually in chief in general in particular in the beginning in the main indeed initially largely mainly more than ever most often mostly naturally never so no end normally normatively on balance on the whole ordinarily originally overall particularly peculiarly predominantly prescriptively prevailingly primarily primo principally regularly roughly roughly speaking routinely speaking generally still more substantially to be expected usually virtually yea