Crossword clues for primacy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Primacy \Pri"ma*cy\, n. [LL. primatia, fr. L. primas, -atis, one of the first or principal, chief, fr. primus first: cf. F. primatie. See Prime, a.]
The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy. [R.]
--De Quincey.The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French primacie (14c., in Modern French spelled primatie) and directly from Medieval Latin primatia "office of a church primate" (late 12c.), from Late Latin primas (genitive primatis) "principal, chief, of the first rank" (see primate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy. 2 The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.
WordNet
n. the state of being first in importance
Wikipedia
Primacy may refer to:
- Primate (bishop)
- Primacy of Canterbury, the supremacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Archbishop of York
- Primacy of the Roman Pontiff
- Primacy of mind, a ubiquitous element in the history of ideas
- Aramaic primacy
- Primacy effect
- Primacy (company), a digital marketing agency based in Connecticut, USA
- Primacy, a suburb of Bangor, County Down
Primacy (formerly Acsys Interactive) is an independent Farmington, Connecticut based digital agency.
Primacy provides clients in the consumer goods, financial services, health care, manufacturing, and higher education industries with strategy, design and user experience, marketing, technology, branding, mobile, media planning and buying.
Primacy was founded in 1994 by President Stan Valencis. It has three offices in the United States, Farmington, New York, and Boston. Incorporated in 1994 as Acsys Interactive, the company rebranded as Primacy in 2012 and moved into a newly renovated office building. The company employs over 77 people out of their Connecticut office.
Primacy received more than 40 awards in 2014, showing significant recognition in its industry.
Usage examples of "primacy".
People would complete his mission, even if they must wrest it from his own apostate race, and die Synod had elevated the son of a lowly mining engineer to the primacy of New New Hebrides to oversee that completion.
Jack contributed a section that constantly mutated from one symmetrical geometrical form to the next, representing the primacy of sheer organization in the evolving universe, the antientropic forces that organize things into organic structures, expressed in the great Overstructure by a series of sections that constantly mutated from one symmetrical geometric form to another, each a variation of the last.
The primacy of the moral and religious law, of ancestral tradition, and of the spontaneous sense of the right and just over the written laws and regulations of the state, and the primacy of the whole unreflecting reason over the lower logical and dissecting reason were the principal tenets of the Slavophils.
If such was the poverty of Laodicea, what must have been the wealth of those cities, whose claim appeared preferable, and particularly of Pergamus, of Smyrna, and of Ephesus, who so long disputed with each other the titular primacy of Asia?
For ten years Manuel had been proposing to the pope the reunification of the two churches: he would recognize the religious primacy of the pope and the pope would recognize the basileus of Byzantium as the sole, authentic Roman emperor, of both East and West.
This primacy of the spiritual inverts the Darwinian materialism on the doctrine of utility.
But as soon as the primacy of representation disappears, then the theory of discourse is dissociated, and one can encounter its disincarnated and metamorphosed form on two separate levels.
They were men of stature and fine countenance, proud of the titular primacy that belonged to them because it was the Onondaga, Hiawatha, who had formed the great confederacy more than four hundred years before our day, or just about the time Columbus was landing on the shores of the New World.
Beowulf was not entirely comfortable with Frodo in such an important position in the team, but his primacy within the pack made it impossible for Beowulf to assign that all-important role to the more steady Sinbad.
Forms of identity transcend the skin boundary in dozens of profoundly important ways, which an account that gives primacy to exteriors cannot even begin to adequately frame.
Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals.
The papacy, firmly Italian once more, acknowledged conciliar supremacy on paper but regained its primacy in fact.
When the Kalendru knew that we had the secret of biological control, they ceded that primacy to us without qualification.
Gypsy da Silva copy edited this book in its manuscript stage with grace and insight and an attention to the primacy of the writers creation that is rare as black diamonds in the publishing industry.
What had been lost in the left hemisphere found a home elsewhere or reasserted their primacy in the damaged regions like pioneers returning to a fire-damaged plain made more fertile by the flames.