(adv.) In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

a fortiori ab initio ab ovo aborigine above all all the more at bottom at first at heart at the core at the start au fond basically before everything chiefly dominantly especially essentially even ever so first first and foremost first of all first thing firstly from the beginning fundamentally generally in chief in essence in itself in substance in the beginning in the main indeed initially largely mainly materially more than ever mostly never so no end on the whole originally overall particularly peculiarly per se predominantly primitively primo principally still more substantially yea