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primipilar, a. Rom. Antiq.|praɪmɪˈpaɪlə(r)|
[ad. L. prīmipīlār-is adj. and n., f. prīmipīl-us: see primipile.]
Belonging to, or that is, a primipilus or primipile.
1600Holland Livy vii. xiii. 257 This Tullius now had been seuen times alreadie a primipilar or principall Centurion. a1677Barrow Pope's Suprem. i. iii. v. Wks. 1831 VII. 150 A primacy of order; such a one..as the primipilar centurion had in the legion. 1782J. Elphinston tr. Martial i. xxxi. 39 Soon as the brave centurion shall attain The primipilar honours. 1891Farrar Darkness & Dawn xl. (1893) 339 He had risen to the rank of a primipilar centurion.
So † primiˈpilary a. Obs. rare—1, ‘first-class’.
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxxviii. 316 Primipilary [Fr. primipile] fool. |