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ollect 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.

of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

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

To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc. Weale.

al thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

ignifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo

Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at. It expresses: -…