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Any placental mammal of the order Primates
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primate
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Primate (pronounced ) is a title or rank bestowed on some archbishops in certain Christian churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority ( title of authority ) or ceremonial precedence ( title of honour ).
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n. a senior clergyman and dignitary [syn: archpriest , hierarch , high priest , prelate ] any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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Primate \Pri"mate\, n. [OE. primat, F. primat, L. primas, -atis one of the first, chief, fr. primus the first. See Prime , a.] The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop. (Zo["o]l.) One ...
Usage examples of primate.
During two days the king rejected his application: but sensible, either that this affair might be attended with dangerous consequences, or that in his impatience he had groundlessly accused the primate of malversation in his office, which seems really to have been the case, he at last permitted him to take his seat, and was reconciled to him.
The potto is the most interesting of the primates, from the anatomical point of view.
It was the skeleton, very delicately dissected and reassembled, of his potto, a rare and curious little West African creature, nominally one of the primates, though quiet, slow, harmless, and remarkably affectionate.
It was no doubt my tailless potto, one of the most interesting of the primates: but alas short-lived.
Therefore, when the primate and six bishops protested against the Declaration of Indulgence, James sent them to the Tower.
Miller assembled a team of psychologists to study a two-hour videotape of Jennie signing to her trainer, Pamela Prentiss of the Tufts University Center for Primate Research.
General Introduction to the Study of Decapilation Among the Tertiates of Gondwana as Contrasted with the Primates of Eurasia.
It was their intention to have proceeded farther that day, but their progress was interrupted by an affair between their Albanian guard and the primate of the village.
In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages.
They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.
Until now, science had known only one higher primate that was nocturnal, the aotus, or night monkey.
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.
The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate.
Metropolitans and Primates, secretly prepared themselves to usurp over their episcopal brethren the same authority which the bishops had so lately assumed above the college of presbyters.
No other primate has that lack of browridge, or that projection from the front of the lower jaw.