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Webster 1913 Edition


Primatial

Pri-ma′tial

,
Adj.
[Cf. F.
primatial
.]
Primatical.
[R.]
D’Anville (Trans. ).

Webster 1828 Edition


Primatial

PRIMA'TIAL

,
Adj.
Pertaining to a primate.

Definition 2024


primatial

primatial

English

Adjective

primatial (not comparable)

  1. (ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to a primate.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 672:
      The Inquisition even ruined the career of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Spain's primatial see of Toledo, and a distinguished Dominican theologian.

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French

Etymology

primat + -al

Adjective

primatial m (feminine singular primatiale, masculine plural primatiaux, feminine plural primatiales)

  1. primatial