primatical

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).

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Meanings

adjectiveprimatical (comparative more primatical, superlative most primatical)

comparative more primatical · superlative most primatical

  1. archaicecclesiasticalOf or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).

    Before I proceed any further I ſhall briefly dravv ſome Corollaries from this Hiſtorical account vvhich I have given of the original and grovvth of Metropolitical, Primatical, and Patriarchal Juriſdiction.

    a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 255

Origin

From primate + -ical.

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Chicago

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