primogenitoral

Adjective

primogenitoral (not comparable)

1. (rare) Being of the earliest or among the very first.
   • Such a family unit may include as many generations as are alive, but there can be only one married couple in each generation. While succession is ideally primogenitoral, a great variety of options can be exercised to secure the succession to the headship of the family.1975-1978, Robert John Smith, Kurusu: the Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951-1975, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 45
   • It is not difficult to see how the family system in Japan, through its flexibility, made the emergence of the modern industrial economy possible. Some specific links, which also apply in the English case, have been suggested in the Japanese context. For instance, Robert Smith has suggested several...1993, 1992 Lectures and Memoirs, British Academy by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196