noun
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A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
example
Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.
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A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
Examples of primate in a Sentence
Sucre is the seat of the archbishop of La Plata and Charcas, the primate of Bolivia.
But the primate contended very vigorously for the right to be tried before his peers, and since the king could get no subsidies from his parliament till he acknowledged the justice of this claim, he was forced to concede it.
The metropolitan archbishop of Bucharest, officially styled metropolitan primate of Rumania, presides over the Holy Synod; the other members being the metropolitan of Jassy (primate of Moldavia), the six bishops of Ramnicu Valcea, Roman, Hushi, Buzeu, Curtea de Argesh and the Lower Danube (Galatz); together with eight bishops in partibus, their coadjutors.
This was a clear invasion of the ancient rights of the primate, and Becket took it more to heart than any other of his grievances.
In 1188 he was sent into Wales with the primate Baldwin to preach the Third Crusade.
At the same time he raised the archbishop of Ipek, the primate of Servia, to the dignity of patriarch.
The archbishop of Toledo is primate.
Nor could any diocese be divided without the consent of the primate.
On the 25th of April 1616 he was made dean of Turbcz, and on the 28th of September became primate of Hungary.
Writers are fond of viewing him as representing all the degrees of the ecclesiastical hierarchy; they say that he is bishop of Rome, metropolitan of the of Roman province, primate of Italy, patriarch of the western Church and head of the universal Church.
About 968 the pope declared that its abbot was primate of all the abbots in Germany and Gaul, and later he became a prince of the Empire.
In Hungary there are two bishoprics, Munkacz and Eperies, under the Latin primate of Hungary, the archbishop of Gran.
There is a great gap to be bridged between the highest anthropoid and the lowest man, and much importance has been attached to the discovery of an extinct primate, Pithecanthropus, which has been regarded as the "missing link."
In December 1588 the first complete Welsh Bible, commonly known as " Bishop Morgan's Bible," was issued from the royal press at Westminster under the patronage of queen and primate, about Boo copies being supplied for distribution amongst the parish churches of Wales.
The suffragans of Canterbury claimed a share in choosing the new primate, although that right had been exclusively reserved to the monks of Canterbury by a papal privilege; and John supported the bishops since they were prepared to give their votes for his candidate, John de Gray, bishop of Norwich.
In the ecclesiastical organization the exarch of a diocese (the word being here used of the political division) was in the 4th and 5th centuries the same as primate.
He was especially urgent for the confirmation of his nominee Johannes Magni as primate, in the place of the rebellious archbishop Gustavus Trolle, who as a convicted traitor had been formally deposed by the Riksdag and was actually an outlawed exile.
Gustavus could not accept as primate an open and Eric and of the Norwegian princess Ingeborg, determined traitor like Trolle.
A few months later there was an open rupture between the king and his own primate, who ultimately was frightened into exile by a sudden accusation of treason.
In 1531 Laurentius Petri was elected the first Protestant primate of Sweden.
His chief work was De primate Petri (1519); his Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutherum ran through 46 editions between 1525 and 1576.
In February 1679 the king had consented to order James to go abroad, and even approved of the attempt of the primate and the bishop of Winchester to convert him to Protestantism.
There are three ecclesiastical provinces - Braga, Lisbon and Evora, each under an archbishop. The archbishop of Braga, whose see is the most ancient, has the title of Primate; the archbishop of Lisbon has the honorary title of Patriarch, and is usually elected a cardinal.
It is based, of course, on the great body of bishops; but episcopal rule, through the various grades of metropolitan, primate, exarch, attains to sovereignty only in the five patriarchal thrones.
The chief importance of Malines is derived from the fact that it is in a sense the religious capital of Belgium - the archbishop being the primate of the Catholic Church in that country.
But Henry, once hailed as king, rode hard for London and persuaded bishop Maurice to crown him without delay at Westminster, since the primate Anseim was absent beyond seas.
The primate of Armagh, the saintly Gelasius, was absent, and presumably his suffragans also, but Giraldus says he afterwards came to the king at Dublin, and favoured him in all things.
The Italian primate, Octavian de Palatio, knew better, and incurred the wrath of Kildare by refusing to officiate at the impostor's coronation.
Neither St Leger nor his successor Sir James Croft could do anything with Ulster, where the papal primate Wauchop, a Scot by birth, stirred up rebellion among the natives and among the Hebridean invaders.
The primate, Christopher Hampton, in a letter which is a model of Christian eloquence, mildly rebuked his eminent suffragan.
Captured in 1205 by William of Champlitte and Villehardouin, the city became the capital and its archbishop the primate of the principality of Achaea.
As a compensation for territory thus withdrawn the Danish archbishop of Lund was made legate and perpetual vicar and given the title of primate of Denmark and Sweden.
The suppressed sees have never been restored, but the four which survive (now known as Nicosia, Paphos, Kition and Kyrenia) are of metropolitan rank, so that the archbishop, whose headquarters, first at Salamis, then at Famagusta, are now at Nicosia, is a primate amongst metropolitans.
There are articles, images, and illustrations on primate anatomy and physiology collected from a variety of Web sites.
Once it was accepted that humans had evolved from primate ancestors, the quest for the chronology of events was on.
This is especially true when the story gets around to our closest primate cousins - the apes.
However, a majority of the British public are opposed to primate experimentation.
But the only European biomedical research that has used great apes recently is the Biomedical Primate Research Center at Rijswijk, in the Netherlands.
The proposed lab follows on from an attempt to build what would have been Europe's largest primate lab in Cambridge.
Determining the evolutionary changes in MCPH genes through the primate lineages to lower mammals.
More recent adult neuropsychology, imaging, and primate neuroscience yield many insights about processing in specialized areas beyond V1.
The University of Cambridge's proposal to build a world-class primate neuroscience center has finally received planning permission.
Primate testing often fails to predict dangerous side effects of medications, especially pertaining to the induction of birth defects.
Error in phylogeny will be illustrated with a comparison of two contemporary primate or host phylogenies against the pinworm or parasite phylogeny.
He spoke out in favor of building the largest primate research center in Europe at the Cambridge primate lab inquiry in 2002/03.
Use to help you find references in all areas of nonhuman primate research.
We would do better to consider primate evolutionary psychology.
Lord Sainsbury attempted to overturn the initial refusal of planning permission for the proposed primate labs, saying that they are of national importance.
All of us began as the same upright primate, roaming tropical savannas on a million identical earths, and look at us now.
Only in certain strains of rabbit and primate can thalidomide 's effect on the human fetus be reproduced.