primogenitary

  • 1primogenitary — əd.ˌerē adjective Etymology: Late Latin primogenitus state of being firstborn + English ary : of, relating to, or based on primogeniture primogenitary rules primogenitary succession …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 2primogenitary — See primogeniture. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 3primogenitary — praɪməʊ dÊ’enɪtrɪ adj. pertaining to the right of the firstborn child or eldest son to receive the family inheritance …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 4primogenitary — pri·mo·gen·i·tary …

    English syllables

  • 5primogeniture — primogenitary, primogenital, adj. primogenitureship, n. /pruy meuh jen i cheuhr, choor /, n. 1. the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents. 2. Law. the system of inheritance or succession by the firstborn,… …

    Universalium

  • 6EMBRYO — (Heb. עֻבָּר, ubbar), a child in the womb of its mother before its head emerges (Sanh. 72b; Sh. Ar., ḤM 425:2), the Hebrew ubbar meaning the unborn child in both the embryonic and fetal stages. Generally speaking, an embryo is incapable of having …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 7Sau (Rotuman king) — Sau, (often mistranslated as “King”), refers to the role of spiritual leader in pre Christian Rotuman society. The title was neither primogenitary nor held for a lifetime, but rather was cycled through the chiefs of each of Rotuma’s districts.The …

    Wikipedia

  • 8primogenital — See primogenitary. * * * …

    Universalium

  • 9elder — Synonyms and related words: Aaronic priesthood, Bible clerk, Bible reader, Establishment, Father Time, Melchizedek priesthood, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, Seventy, VIP, acolyte, age, alderman, almoner, anagnost, ancestors, antecedent,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 10former — Synonyms and related words: aforementioned, aforenamed, aforesaid, ancient, antecedent, antediluvian, anterior, anticipatory, beforementioned, bygone, ci devant, departed, earlier, early, elder, eldest, erstwhile, first, first born, firstling,… …

    Moby Thesaurus