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▪ I. † palmary, n. Obs. rare.|ˈpælmərɪ|
[ad. L. palmāri-um, that which carries off the palm of victory, neuter n. use of palmāri-us of or pertaining to a palm: see next.]
A token of victory or supreme excellence, a prize: cf. palm n.1 3.
1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 163, I give thee this, the palmary of thyne [sc. beauty].
▪ II. palmary, a.1|ˈpælmərɪ|
[ad. L. palmāri-us that bears off the palm of victory, f. palma palm: see -ary.]
That bears, or is worthy to bear, the palm (see palm n.1 3); holding the first or highest place; of supreme or first-rate importance; pre-eminent, principal, chief.
1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινή Diat. iii. 144 Three favourite and palmary Texts. 1703Quick Dec. Wife's Sister 23 But the Palmary Argument for these Marriages..is this, their great Expediency. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 38 That palmary truth of the Pauline theology. 1888I. Bywater in Class. Rev. II. 278 He has given us a goodly number of emendations of the kind which in old days would have been called ‘palmary’. [Cf. mod.L. emendatio palmaria.]
▪ III. ˈpalmary, a.2 rare.
[ad. L. palmār-is, f. palma palm: see -ary2. Cf. F. palmaire (Paré 16th c.).]
Pertaining to the palm of the hand; palmar.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Palmary Muscle, the Muscle that contracts the Palm of the hand. 1897Chicago Advance 21 Oct. 547/2 It began with ordinary palmary and pedal applause. |