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Show P PRI'MATE. #n. f. [primat, Fr. primas The chief ecclefiaftick, Latin. We may learn from the prugent pen of our mof reverend primate eminent as well for promoting unHolyday animity as learning When the powe of the church wa Mofes being chofen by God to be the ruler o his people, will not prove that priefthood belonge ta Adam's heir, or the prime fathers 4 His larum bell might loud and wide be hear Milion 3. The beft part Give no more to ev'ry gueft Than he's able to digeft «Give him always of the prime And but little at a time Sf.'uf[. 4. The {pring of life; th health, ftrength, or beauty Make hafte heigh o powde Unlefs he were like Phebus young Nor ever nymph infpir'd to rhyme Unlefs, like Venus, in her prime Sawift 5. Spring Hope waits upon the flow'ry prime And fummer, though it be lefs gay Yet is not look'd on as a tim Walier Of declination or decay The poet and his theme in fpite of time Kor ever young enjoys an endlefs prime. Granvilie Nought treads {o filent as the foot of time Hence we miftake our autumn for our primes. ¥oung 6. The height of perfection The plants which now appear in the mof different feafons, would have been all in prime and flourifhing together at the fame time. Woodaw 7. The firft canonical hour dinfworth 3. The firft part; the beginning: as, #h prime of the moon Pr1ME. adj. [primus, Latin. 1. Early; blooming His ftarry helm unbuckl'd, fhew'd him prim Milton In manhood, where youth ended 2 Principal firft rate Divers of prime quality, in feveral counties, were for refufing to pay the fame, committed to prifon Clarendon Nor can I think, that God wil fo deftro Milton Us his prime creatures dignify'd fo high "Humility and refignation are our prime virtues Dryden 3. Firft; original We fmother' The moft replenifhed {weet work of nature That from the prime.creation:e'er fhe fram'ds Shak apoftolical government of the chu c "The dotlrine of purgatory, by w i an eftate of temporary punifhments Shakefpeare in the pan of a gun life, was not known in the Pprim tive churc can be proved from1 {cripture Ti 2. [Primer French the groun t Savift begin. To la on a canvafs to be painted PrRi'MELY. adv. [from prime. 1. Originally; primarily; in th the fuppofed gravity of old times 3. Original; primary; not derivatiye as, 1 place ; in the firft intention Words fignify not immediately and primely thing themfelyes, but the conceptions of the mind abou them South 2. Excellently; fupremely well A lo fenfe Prr'MENEss. #. /. [from prime. 1. The ftate of being firft z. Excellence Pr1"MER. ‘adj. [ primarius, Latin. original Not in ufe As when the primer churc Our primitive great fire, to mee Firft Great Britain's bifhops there were not the leait o Pri'miTivELY. adv 1. Originally; at firft i _Selcmnitic ing 7. / A fmall praye book in which children are taught t read, fo named from the Romifh boo of devotions ; an elementary book Latin. The Lord's prayer, ‘the creed and ten commandments he thould learn by heart, not by readin them himfelf in his primer, but by fomebody' repeating them before he can read Lucke PRIME'RO at cards a. /. [Spanith. gam Shakefp. Henry VIII PriMevacr } adj. [ primewvus, Latin. PriMEvOUsS Original; fuch as wa at firft Immortal dove Thou with almighty energy didft mov On the wild waves, incumbent didft difpla Thy genial wings, and hatch primeval day. Blackm All the parts of this great fabrick change Quit their old ftations and primeval frame And lofe their fhape, their effence, and their name Prior PriMY'TIAL. adj. [primitius, primitie Lat.] Being of the firft produéion Ainfaworth PRUMITIVE. adj. [primitif, Fr. primitivus, Latin. Ancient; original the beginning eftablifhe fro The fcripture is of fovereign authority, and fo itfelf worthy of all acceptation. The latter, namel the voice and teftimony of the primitiwe church, is a minifterial an fubordinat rule an ceremonies primitively en afterward omitted, the occafion ceaf Brow in the world was laid in the duft Pri'MITIVENESS. #. /. [from primitive guide Affefle nicenefs or formality Primoce'N1AL. adj. [primigenius, La it thould therefore have been writte primigenial.] Firltborn; original; prmary; conftituent; elemental Populrl s und The primogenial light at firlt was diffufed ore fac of the unfathioned chaos Glanwill 1t is not eafy to difcern, among many differin fro the fame matter, what fub@ance obtaine the chaos was not like the prefent carth primogenial and fimple bodics convened togethe B compofe it The firft or primogenial earth, which rofe out of PRIMOGE'NITURE #. Buritts [primogenitur French; from primo gemitus, Latin Seniority; elderfhip; ftate of bein firftborn. Becaufe the fcripture affordeth the priority "‘ hi e in c he o f o n c w m S t u ord Brow primogeniture mpr an t ir il fe hi b ha e o o p f fi Th lt gu th o ti po l u d e enitu I left him at primer With the duke of Suffolk [from Primitize, The pureft and moft primitively reformed ch th Another prayer to her is not only in th manual, but in the primer or office of the blefie Virgin Stilling fleet [Primarius an Milun 2. Primarily; not derivatively 3. Accordint g the original rule; accord ing to ancient practice Drayton 1. An office of the blefled Virgin 2 His godlike gueft, walks forth Pri'MNEss. #. /. [from prim. to call PrRi"MER a primitive werj State of being original ; antiquity; c formity to antiquity her councils pleas' all grammar Joined, wer firf gh z. Formal; affe@edly folemn imitl lg GLLV His friendfhip was exaétly tim'd He fhot before your foes were prim'd ihops K n C David refieéts fometimes y po the pre nfo, of the world, and fometi form of it " }'m before the primef} creatur A piftol of about a foot in length, we prime with well dried gunpowder Boyle Prime all your firelocks, faften well the ftake fweet love, whilft it is prime Spenfer Tor none can call again the pafied time Will fhe yet debafe her eyes on me That cropt the golden prime of this {weet prince 4And made her widow to a woful bed Shake[p Youth, beauty, wifdom, courage, virtue, al That happinefs and prime can happy call. Shakefp Likelieft fhe feem'd to Ceres in her grime. Milt Short were her marriage joys ; for in the prim Of youth, her lord expir'd before his times Dryd No poet ever fweetly fung greater fervice, than utterly u; de&}e t'o;a?a:! db wit 70 PrimE. @, a. [from the noun. 1. To put in the firft powder; to pu 2, The beginning; the early days Nature here wanton'd as in her prime {carcel That's paragon'd i' th> world ‘While day arifes, that {weet hour of primes Milton Quickly fundry arts mechanical were found ou Hooker in the very prime of the world It may, in this loofe {enfe Catharine our queen but never out of time Early and late it rung at evening and at prime. Spenf Sure pledge of day, that crown'ft the fmilin mor ‘With thy bright circlet, praife him in thy fpher Locke Their fupesftition pretends, t We are contented' wit Pri'maTESHIP. #. f. [from primate. The dignity or office of a primate PrimEe. z. /. [primus, Latin. 1. The firlt part of the day; the dawn the morning Excellent perbaps admit, thoug propriety, a fuperlative firft efta blifhed, the archbifhops of Canterbury and Yor had then no preheminence one over the other the former being primate over the fouthern, as th Ayliffe latter was over the northern parts The late and prefent primate, and the lord archbithop of Dublin, have left memorials of thei Savift bounty ‘When caufe requir'd PR PR t preferve and dire¢t us, in the right underftandin of the fcriptures White. Gowernment of the Tongut PRIMO'RDIAL. adj. [primordial; French primordium, Latin.] Original; exiftin from the beginning tp:: f othgrw o e fmu tra eithe b Salts ma duced, and fo may not be primordial and xmm%" beings e i t j a t r [ / 7 Pa1Mo'R Origin ; firft principal : z‘ m" no ar rl yv th o [ Thge pr';‘,mordi al vi an c t m e f b cal u p o i e f 7 PriMORDIAN PrimMoRDIATE.. . adj. [fr Latin. Original exifting from firft c thin ever No b or fpirit, that needs alway Bv}l ingenerable body Lati ris v Pr1'MROSE. n. / a y t 1 r e a t 1. A flowe Pale primrofes e That die unm h e Bright P t f There followe p l t r e t primr |