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- English Word Primogenitor Definition The first ancestor; a forefather.
- English Word Primogeniture Definition The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.
- English Word Primogeniture Definition The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue.
- English Word Primogenitureship Definition The state or privileges of the firstborn.
- English Word Primordial Definition First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
- English Word Primordial Definition Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
- English Word Primordial Definition Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
- English Word Primordial Definition A first principle or element.
- English Word Primordialism Definition Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.
- English Word Primordially Definition At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
- English Word Primordian Definition A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.
- English Word Primordiate Definition Primordial.
- English Word Primp Definition To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up.
- English Word Primrose Definition An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.
- English Word Primrose Definition Any plant of the genus Primula.
- English Word Primrose Definition Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.
- English Word Primula Definition The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).
- English Word Primulaceous Definition Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceae), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.
- English Word Primum mobile Definition In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline.
- English Word Primus Definition One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.