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primogenital, a.|praɪməʊˈdʒɛnɪtəl|
[ad. late L. prīmōgenitāl-is (Tertull.), f. prīmōgenit-us (taken as n.): see prec. and -al1.]
Of or pertaining to the first-born or to primogeniture.
1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 21 Those garments Rebecca put on Jacob, his sacerdotal vestment; but it was still the primogenital right, till a family separated. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel iv, The primogenital cellars were not niggard of their stores. 1888Science 14 Sept. 124/1 Genesis..considered under some of its subordinate phases, as heredity, physiological selection, sexual selection, primogenital selection, sexual differentiation,..hybridity, &c. |