单词 | primatial |
释义 | primatialadj. 1. Christian Church. Of, relating to, or having ecclesiastical primacy; of or relating to a primate. Also in extended use.The word should perhaps be interpreted as a noun in quot. 1623. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > primate > [adjective] primal1543 primatial1623 primaticala1677 primatic1687 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [adjective] firsteOE headOE highOE greatc1350 upperestc1374 chief1377 singular1377 principala1382 royalc1425 cardinal1440 pre-eminenta1460 praisea1475 main1480 maina1525 primary1565 captain1566 arch1574 mistressa1586 capital1597 topless1609 primea1616 metropolitan1635 transeminent1660 whole1675 uppermost1680 primus inter pares1688 topping1694 Sudder1787 par excellence1839 banner1840 primatial1892 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. xiii. 249 King Bamba diuided these Dioceses..erecting for Metropolitanes, Toledo, which he made Primatiall [Fr. Primace] of all Spaine, Seuille [etc.]. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 119 People were commonly perswaded, that the Church of Lyons was Primatial [Fr. On étoit persuadé que l'Eglise de Lyon étoit Primatiale]. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 613 The consequences of his being advanced to the primatial see of Canterbury. 1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket v. xv. 140 (stage direct.) Becket's Corpse on a bier. Crowds of visitors,..touching it, kissing the Primatial robes. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 317 Henry of Winchester pleaded hard..that the ancient capital should be raised to primatial rank, as the metropolitan see of Wessex. 1892 W. E. Gladstone in Daily News 5 Dec. 3/5 The claims of Bristol to what I may call the primatial position in British commerce. 1904 A. F. Pollard Cranmer iv. 95 Another attempt..against his primatial dignity. 1943 E. A. Peers Spain in Eclipse iii. iii. 205 The appointment to the vacant Primatial See of Mgr. Enrique Pla y Daniel, Bishop of Salamanca. 1995 Church Times 15 Dec. 3/2 The sub-chamberlain collected the primatial cross, which contrived to look as if it had been there since Dr Habgood's departure. 2. Zoology. = primatal adj. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [adjective] quadrumanous1704 quadrumane1784 quadrimanous1790 pedimanous1836 quadrumanal1857 primatial1864 primatal1870 cheiropodous1889 primatic1890 1864 Spectator 4 June 650/2 The lemurine—and consequently quadrumane (Professor Huxley would call them primatial)—affinities of the Chiromys. 1866 Trans. Zool. Soc. 5 108 That essentially primatial sulcus, the calcarine..is equally well developed in both Lemur and Sterops. 1908 Science 8 May 739/2 It is assumed that the carnivoral cruciate fissure is homologous with the primatial central or Rolandic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1623 |
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