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primatical

primatical adjective: of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).

Adjective

primatical (comparative more primatical, superlative most primatical)

  1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).
    • Before I proceed any further I ſhall briefly dravv ſome Corollaries from this Hiſtorical account vvhich I have given of the original and grovvth of Metropolitical, Primatical, and Patriarchal Juriſdiction.a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and...

Forms of primatical

comparativemore primatical
superlativemost primatical

Origin of primatical

From primate + -ical.

Questions about primatical

What does primatical mean?
Primatical means of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).
What part of speech is primatical?
Primatical is an adjective.

Words near primatical in the dictionary

  1. primatelike
  2. primates
  3. primateship
  4. primateships
  5. primatial
  6. primatical
  7. primative
  8. primatological
  9. primatologically
  10. primatologies
  11. primatologist

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