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First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.

Of or pertaining to primogeniture. [R.]

The first ancestor; a forefather.

son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. Blackstone.

The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.

First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition. "The primordial facts of our intelligent nature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state. H. Spencer.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc.

Primordial. [R.] Boyle.

To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.

So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

The genus of plants including the primrose (Primula vera).

Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceæ), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon.

One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority. Internat. Cyc.

Being in its prime. [Obs.] "The youth of primy nature." Shak.

The chief primate. Milton.

Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." Derham.