Properly, straight; erect; hence, formal; precise; affectedly nice.
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To deck with great nicety; to form with affected preciseness.
Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
Prim
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PRIM, Juan, Marquis delos Castillejos, Count de Reuss (1814-1870), Spanish soldier and statesman, was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Pablo Prim, and was born at Reuss in Catalonia on 12th December 1814. He entered the free corps known as the volunteers of Isabella II. in 1834 and greatly distinguished himself throughout the Carlist War, in the course of which he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and had two orders of knighthood conferred upon him. After the pacification of 1839 he entered political life, and as a progressist opposed to the dictatorship of Espartero he was sent into exile. However, in 1843 he was elected deputy for Tarragona and issued a pronunciamento against Espartero at Reuss; and after defeating Espartero at Bruch he entered Madrid in triumph with Serrano. The regent Maria Christina recognized his services, promoted him to the rank of majorgeneral, and made him count of Reuss. Prim now looked forward to peace under a settled constitutional monarchy, but Narvaez, the prime minister, failed to understand what constitutional freedom meant, and Prim, on showing signs of opposition, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the Philippine Islands. The sentence was not carried out, and Prim remained an exile in England and France until the amnesty of 1847. He then returned to Spain, but kept aloof from politics, and was first employed as captaingeneral of Porto Rico and afterwards as military representative of Spain with the sultan during the Crimean War. In 1854 he returned to Spain on being elected to the cortes, and gave his support to O'Donnell, who promoted him to be lieutenant-general in 1856. In the war with Morocco, at the head of his division, he did such good service at Los Castillejos or Marabout, Cabo Negro, Guad al Gelu, and Campamento ...in 1860 that he was made marquis de los Castillejos and a grandee of Spain. He next commanded the Spanish expeditionary army in Mexico, when he acted in exact accordance with the treaty of London and refused to consent to the ambitious schemes of Napoleon III. On his return to Spain he joined the opposition, heading pronunciamentos in Catalonia against Narvaez and O’Donnell. All his attempts failed until the death of Narvaez in April 1868, after which Queen Isabella fell more and more under the influence of the J esuits, and became increasingly tyrannical, until at last even Serrano was exiled, and more than 10,000 persons, includ-
îng every journalist of position, were in prison. In September 1868 Serrano and Prim returned, and Admiral Topete, commanding the fleet, raised the standard of revolt at Cadiz. For the public events of the subsequent ten months the reader is referred to the article Spain. In July 1869 Serrano was elected regent, and Prim became president of the council and was made a marshal. On 16th November 1870 Amadeo, duke of Aosta, was elected king of Spain, but Prim was not destined to receive the new monarch, for on leaving the chamber of the cortes on 28th December he was shot by unknown assassins and died two days later. The cortes at once declared that he had deserved well of his native land, and took his children as wards of the country; three days afterwards King Amadeo I. swore in the presence of the corpse to observe the new Spanish constitution.
Two biographies of Prim down to 1860 were published in that year by Gimenez y Guited and Gonzalez Llanos; see also L. Blairet, Le Général Prim et la situation actuelle de l’Espagne, Paris, 1867, and Guillaumot, Juan Prim et l'Espagne, Paris, 1870.
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The first or chief female singer in an opera.
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Prima facie
Webster's Dictionary 1913
At first view; on the first appearance.
1. The chief ecclesiastical station or dignity; the office or dignity of an archbishop.
2. Excellency; supremacy.
1. The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.
2. The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.
In commerce, a small duty payable to the master and mariners of a ship.
First. [Not in use.]
First; primary; original; chief.
In the first place; originally; in the first intention. The word emperor primarily signifies a general or military commander in chief. In diseases, the physician is to attend to the part primarily affected.
In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
The state of being first in time, in act or intention.
The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention.
1. First in order of time; original; as the church of Christ in its primary institution.
2. These I call original or primary qualities of body.
3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal. Our ancestors considered the education of youth or primary importance.
4. Elemental; intended to teach youth the first rudiments; as primary schools.
5. Radical; original; as the primary sense of a word.
6. Primary planets, are those which revolve about the sun, in distinction form the secondary planets, which revolve about the primary
7. Primary qualities of bodies, are such as are original and inseparable from them.
1. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
2. First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
4. Earliest formed; fundamental.
5. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
1. That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
2. A primary meeting; a caucus.
3. One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
4. A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
The chief ecclesiastic in the church; an archbishop.
1. The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
2. One of the Primates.
Primate
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PRIMATE(primas, i.e., primus'), a title more than once bestowed in the Codex Theodosianus on various civil functionaries, came about the beginning of the 4th century to be used also, especially in Africa, as a designation of the “primae sedis episcopus.” In the canon law the word “primate” is regarded as essentially the Western equivalent of the Eastern “patriarch.” See Archbishop and Patriarch.
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The office or dignity of an archbishop.
Pertaining to a primate.
Of or pertaining to a primate.
1. First in order of time; original; as prime fathers; prime creation.
2. In this sense, the use of the word is nearly superseded by primitive, except in the phrase, prime cost.
3. First in rank, degree or dignity; as prime minister.
4. First in excellence; as prime wheat; cloth of a prime quality. Humility and resignation are prime virtues.
5. Early; blooming.
7. In manhood, where youth ended.
8. First in value or importance.
9. PRIME number, in arithmetic, a number which is divisible only by unity, as 5.7.ll.
10. PRIME figure, in geometry, a figure which cannot be divided into any other figure more simple than itself, as a triangle, a pyramid, etc.
1. The first opening of day; the dawn; the morning.
2. Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime
3. The sweet hour of prime
4. The beginning; the early days.
5. In the very prime of the world.
6. The spring of the year.
7. Hope waits upon the flower prime
8. The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength or beauty.
9. That crop the golden prime of this sweet prince.
10. The prime of youth.
11. The best part.
12. Give him always of the prime
13. The utmost perfection.
14. The plants--would have been all in prime
16. In fencing, the first of the chief guards.
17. In chimistry, primes are numbers employed, in conformity with the doctrine of definite proportions, to express the ratios in which bodies enter into combination. Primes duly arranged in a table, constitute a scale of chimical equivalents. They also express the ratios of the weights of atoms, according to the atomic theory.
18. PRIME of the moon, the new moon, when it first appears after the change.
19. vertical, the vertical circle which passes through the poles of the meridian, or the east and west points of the horizon. Dials projected on the plane of this circle, are called prime vertical or north and south dials.
To serve for the charge of a gun.
1. To put powder in the pan of a musket or other fire-arm; or to lay a train of powder for communicating fire to a charge.
2. To lay on the first color in painting.
1. First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
2. First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
3. First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
4. Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
6. Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
7. The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
8. The first of the chief guards.
9. Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
10. A prime number. See under Prime, a.
11. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.
13. To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
14. To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
16. To mark with a prime mark.
1. The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.
2. The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.
3. That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
1. To be renewed, or as at first.
2. To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
3. To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.
Having powder in the pan; having the first color in painting.
1. At first; primarily.
2. In a prime manner; excellently.
Affectation Roget’s Thesaurus §855
N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882, boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan
V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs, boast, coquet, simper, mince, attitudinize, pose, flirt a fan, overact, overdo
Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental
Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
Pride Roget’s Thesaurus §878
N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady
V. be proud, put a good face on, look one in the face, stalk abroad, perk oneself up, think no small beer of oneself, presume, swagger, strut, rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head, hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, "bear like the turk no rival near the throne", carry with a high hand, ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse, set one's back up, bridle, toss the head, give oneself airs, boast, pride oneself on, glory in, take a pride in, pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself, stand upon, be proud of, put a good face on, not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin, not think small beer of oneself
Adj. dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty-minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur
Adv. with head erect
Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo, "a duke's revenues on her back", "disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon", "pride in their port, defiance in their eye"
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As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”