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Primatial

Primatial \Pri*ma"tial\, a. [Cf. F. primatial.] Primatical. [R.]
--D'Anville (Trans. ).

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primatial

a. (context ecclesiastical English) Of or pertaining to a primate.

Usage examples of "primatial".

Indeed, one of the most notorious of the regents now occupied the primatial throne, and had suspended and excommunicated both bishops at Dhassa as one of his first official acts.

Canterbury, clothed in the ghostly panoply of his see, fortified against the world by his primatial cross.

A day later the same mysterious person delivered in York a prohibition forbidding the archbishop to crown the young king in despite of the primatial rights of Canterbury.