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The quality or state of being primal. [Obs.]

In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.

The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention. Norris.

elopment or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of body. Locke.

One of the Primates.

The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.

Primatical. [R.] D'Anville (Trans. ).

Of or pertaining to a primate. Barrow.

r formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

One who reprimands.

A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

Marked with three spots, or maculæ.

Primarily.

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

llect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.