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primatial, a.|praɪˈmeɪʃəl|
[a. F. primatial (16th c. in Littré), f. L. prīmātia primacy: see -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or having ecclesiastical primacy; pertaining to a primate.
1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 249 Toledo, which he made Primatiall of all Spaine. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 119 People were commonly perswaded, that the Church of Lyons was Primatial. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 613 The consequences of his being advanced to the primatial see of Canterbury. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiii. 317 Henry of Winchester pleaded hard..that the ancient capital should be raised to primatial rank, as the metropolitan see of Wessex. 1904Pollard Cranmer iv. 95 Another attempt..against his primatial dignity.
b. gen. Of pre-eminence or superiority.
1892Gladstone in Daily News 5 Dec. 3/5 The claims of Bristol to what I may call the primatial position in British commerce.
2. Zool. Of or pertaining to the mammalian order Primates: more properly primatal.
1864Spectator 4 June 650/2 The lemurine—and consequently quadrumane (Professor Huxley would call them primatial)—affinities of the Chiromys. |