His high courage prick'd him forth to wed. Pope. 7. To pain; to pierce with remorse.-When they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts. Acts ii. 37. 8. To make acid. They their late attacks decline, And turn as eager as prick'd wine. 9. To mark a tune. Hudibras. (2.) To PRICK. v. n. (prijken, Dutch.] 1. To drefs one's felf for fhow. 2. To come upon the fpur. This seems to be the fenfe in Spenfer.After that Varlet's flight, it was not long Ere on the plain faft pricking Guyon fpied One in bright arms embattled. Spenfer They had not ridden far, when they might fee Spenfer. One pricking towards them. -The Scottish horfemen began to hover much upon the English army, and to come pricking about them. Hayward. Before each van Prick forth the airy knights. In this king Arthur's reign, Milton. A lufty knight was pricking o'er the plain. Dryd * PRICKER. n. f. [from prick.] 1. A fharppointed inftrument.-Pricker is vulgarly called an awl; yet, for joiners use, it hath most commonly a square blade. Moxon. 2. A light horfeman. Not in ufe. They had horfemen, prickers as they are termed. Hayward. PRICKET. n. . [from prick.] A buck in his fecond year. Shak. The princefs kill'd a pricket. -The buck is called the first year a fawn, the second year a pricket. Manwood's Laws of the Foreft. - (1.) PRICKLE! n. f. [from prick.] Small sharp point, like that of a brier.-The prickles of trees are a kind of excrefcence: the plants that have prickles are black and white; thofe have it in the bough the plants that have prickles in the leaf are holly and juniper: nettles alfo have a small venomous prickle. Bacon.-An herb growing in the water, called lincoftis, is full of prickles: this putteth forth another small herb out of the leaf, imputed to moisture gathered between the prickles. Bacon.-A fox catching hold of a bramble to break his fall, the prickles ran into his feet. L'Eftrange. The man who laugh'd but once, to fee an afs Dryden. Neglect the prickles, and assume the rofe. Watts. (2.) PRICKLE PEAR, in geography, an ifland near the N. coaft of Antigua. Lon. 61. 30. W. Lat. 17. 18. N. * PRICKLINESS. n. f. [from prickly.] Fullnefs of fharp points, VOL. XVIII. PART I. 305) PRICKLOUSE. . f. [prick and loufe.] A word of contempt for a tailor. A low word.-A tailor and his wife quarreling, the woman in contempt called her husband prickloufe. L'Etrange. (r.)* PRICKLY. adj. [from prick.] Full of fharp points. Artichoaks will be lefs prickly and more tender, if the feeds have their tops grated off upon a stone. Bacon. I no more Shall fee you browzing, on the mountain's brow, Drydent Savift. How did the humble fwain deteft His prickly beard and hairy breast! (2.) PRICKLY PEAR, in botany. See CACTUS (1.) * PRICKMADAм. n. f. A fpecies of houses leek. (2.) PRICKMADAM, in botany. See SEDUM, *PRICKPUNCH. n.f. Prickpunch is a piece of tempered steel, with a round point at one end, to prick a round mark in cold iron. Moxon. *PRICKSONG. n. f. [prick and song.] Song fet to mufick. He fights as you fing prickfongs, keeps time, distance, and proportion. Shak. * (1.) PRICKWOOD. n. f. [euonymus.]' A tree. Ainsworth. (2.) PRICKWOOD, in botany. See EUONYMUSE Peep through each part of him. Shaki Shaki They undergo This annual humbling certain number'd day's, To dafh their pride and joy for man feduc'd, Milton Blown up with high conceits engend'ring Miltons pride. 2. Infolence; rude treatment of others; infolent exultation. Milton Hardly we efcap'd the pride of France. Shakt 3. 5. 6. The honeft pride of conscious virtue. Smith Elevation; dignity A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a moufing owl hawkt at and kill'd. Shak Ornament; fhow; decoration.- Be his this fword, Whofe ivory fheath, inwrought with curious pride, Adds graceful terror to the wearer's fide. Pope 7. Splendour; oftentation.— In this array the war of either fide, Thro' Athens pafs'd with military pride. Dryd. 8. The ftate of a female beaft foliciting the male.It is impoffible you should see this, Were they as falt as wolves in pride. *To PRIDE. v. a. [from the noun.] To make Shak. proud; to rate bimfelf high. It is only used with the the reciprocal pronoun.-He could have made the moft deformed beggar as rich as those who moft pride themselves in their wealth. Gov. of Tongue. This little impudent hardwareman turns into ridicule the direful apprehenfions of the whole kingdom, priding himfelf as the caufe of them. Swift. (1.) PRIDEAUX, Humphry, D. D. a learned divine, born at Padstow in Cornwall in 1648, and honourably defcended by both parents. Three years he studied at Westminster under Dr Bufby; and then was removed to Chrift-church, Oxford. Here he published, in 1676, his Marmora Oxonienfia ex Arundelianis, Seldenianis, aliifque conflata, oum perpetuo Commentario. This introduced him to the lord chancellor Finch, afterwards earl of Nottingham, who, in 1679, refented him to. the rectory of St Clements, near Oxford, and, in 1681, bestowed on him a prebend of Norwich. Some years after, he was engaged in a controverfy with the Papists at Norwich, concerning the validity of the orders of the church of England, which produced his book upon that subject. In 1688 he was inftalled in the archdeaconry of Suffolk to which he was collated by Dr Lloyd, then bishop of Norwich. In 1691, upon the death of Dr Edward Pococke, the Hebrew profefforfhip at Oxford being vacant, was offered to Dr Prideaux, but he refused it. In 1697 he published his Life of Mahomet, and in 1702 was inftalled dean of Norwich. In 1710 he was cut for the ftone, which interrupted his ftudies for more than a year. Some time after his return to London, he proceeded with his Connection of the History of the Old and New Tefiament; which he had begun when he laid afide the defign of writing the Hiftory of Appropriations. He died in 1724. (2.) PRIDEAUX, John, D. D. a learned English prelate, born at Stowford in Devonshire in 1578. His father had fo numerous a family, and was in fuch narrow circumftances, that John-applied for the office of parish-clerk, and loft it. Yet, by the generofity of a friend, he was fent to the univerfity of Oxford; where he fucceeded Dr Holland as mafter of Exeter College, in which he took his degrees. He was alfo regius profeffor of divinity, and vice-chancellor. In 1641 he was made Bp. of Worcester, but got little benefit from this promotion, being plundered foon after, during the troubles that followed, for having excommuni. cated those who had taken up arms against the king. He died in 1650. * PRIE. 7. /. I suppose an old name of privet.Lop pepler and fallow, elme, maple, and prie, Well faved from cattle, till fummer to lie. Tuff. PRIEBUS, a town of Silefia, in Sagan, on the Neiffe. It was totally burnt in 1612. It lies 15 miles SW. of Sagan, and 20 WSW. of Sprottau. *PRIEF, for proof. Spenfer. PRIEGO, two towns of Spain: 1. in Cordova, 10 miles E. of Lucena: 2. in New Caftile, 28 miles NNW. of Cuença. PRIEL, the higheft mountain in Auftria; 8 miles W. of St Jorgen. PRIENE, an ancient town of Afia Minor. It is now called Samfun, and Samfun-kateft, which do not however appear to be very recent. It was taken in 1391 by Bajazet, who fubdued Ionia. 5. * PRIER. n.. [from pry.] One who inquire too narrowly. PRIESDORF, a town of Upper Saxony, i Anhalt Cothen; 2 miles S. of Cothen. PRIESEN, a town of Bohemia, in Leitmeritz 8 miles N of Leitmeritz. (1.) * PRIEST. n.f. [preoft, Sax. preftre, Fr. 1. One who officiates in facred offices. Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a prie The high-priest (hall not uncover his head. Lev xxi. 10-Our practice of finging differs from the practice of David, the priests, and Levites Peacham Thefe prayers I thy priest before thee bring. Milt 2. One of the fecond order in the hierarchy, above a deacon, below a bishop.-There were no prieЛls and anti priests in oppofition to one another, and therefore there could be no schifm Lesley.— Rowe. No neighbours, but a few poor fimpie clowns, Honeft and true, with a well-meaning priest. -Curanius is a holy priest, full of the spirit of the gofpel. Law. (2.) A PRIEST, in antiquity, was a perfon fet apart for the performance of facrifice, and other offices and ceremonies of religion. Before the promulgation of the law of Mofes, the first-born of every family, the fathers, the princes, and the kings, were riefts. Thus Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Melchizedec, Job, Ifaac, and Jacob, offered their own facrifices. Among the Ifraelites, after their exody from Egypt, the priesthood was confined to one tribe; and it confifted of three orders, the high priest, priests, and Levites. The priefthood was made hereditary in the family of Aaron; and the firft-born of the oldeft branch of that family, if he had no legal blemish, was always the high prieft. This divine appointment was obferved with confiderable accuracy till the Jews fell under the dominion of the Romans, and had their faith corrupted by a falfe philofophy. Then, indeed, the high-priesthood was fometimes fet up to fale; and inflead of continuing for life, as it ought to have done, it feems, from fome paffages in the New Teftament, to have been nothing more than an annual office. There is fufficient reafon, however, to believe, that it was never dif pofed of but to fome defcedant of Aaron, capable of filling it, had the older, branches been extinct. (For the confecration and offices of the Jewish priesthood, we refer our readers to the books of Mofes ) In the time of David, the inferior priefts were divided into 24 companies, who were to ferve in rotation, each company by itself, for a week, The order in which the feveral courtes were to ferve was determined by lot; and each course was in all fucceeding ages called by the name of its original chief. All nations have had their priests. The Pagans had priests of Jupiter, Mars, Bacchus, Hercules, Ofiris, and Ifis, &c.; and fome deities had priefteffes. The Mahometans have priefts of different orders, called schick, and mufti; and the Indians and Chinete have their bramins and bones. It has been much disputed, whether, in the Chriftian church, there be any fuch officer as a priefi, in the proper fenfe of the word. The church of Rome, which holds the propitiatory facrifice of the mass, has, of course, her proper priesthood. In the church church of England, the word priest is retained to denote the fecond order in hierarchy, but we believe with very different fignifications, according to the different opinions entertained of the Lord's fupper. Some few of her divines, of great learning, and of undoubted Proteftantifm, maintain that the Lord's fupper is a commemorative and euchariftical facrifice. These confider all who are authorifed to adminifter that facrament as in the ftricteft fenfe priests. Others hold the Lord's fupper to be a feat upon the one facrifice, once offered on the crofs; and these too must consider themselves as clothed with fome kind of priesthood. Great numbers, however, of the English clergy, perhaps the majority, agree with the church of Scotland, in maintaining that the Lord's fupper is a rite of no other moral import, than the mere commemoration of the death of Chrift. Thefe cannot confider themselves as priests in the rigid fenfe of the word, but only as prefbyters, of which the word prit is a contraction of the fame import with elder. See PRESBYTERIANS, 5: * PRIESTCRAFT. n. f. [prieft and craft.] Re ligious frauds; management of wicked priefts to gain power.-Puzzle has half a dozen commonplace topicks; though the debate be about Dou ay, his difcourfe runs upon bigotry and priest craft. Spectator. From prieflcraft happily fet free, Pope. * PRIESTESS. n. f. [from prieft.] A woman who officiated in heathen rites. Then too, our mighty fire, thou stood'ft difarm'd When thy wrapt foul the lovely priestess charm'd That Rome's high founder bore. Addifon. -These two, being the fons of a lady who was prießefs to Juno, drew their mother's chariot to the temple. SpeЯator. Swift. She as priestess knows the rites, Wherein the God of earth delights. Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's fide, Trembling, begins the facred rites. Pope. PRIESTHOLM, an island in the Irish fea, near the NE. coaft of Anglesey: 5 miles NE. of Beaumaris, and 14 NW. of Conway Bay. *PRIESTHOOD. n. f. [from priest. 1. The office and character of a prieft.-Jeroboam is reproved, because he took the priesthood from the tribe of Levi. Whitgifte. The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable. Atterburg.-The state of parents is a holy state, in fome degree like that of the priesthood, and calls upon them to bless their children. Law. 2. The order of men fet apart for holy offices. He pretends, that I have fallen foul on priesthood. Dryden. 3. The second order of the hierarchy. See PRIEST. PRIESTLEY, Jofeph, LL. D. F. R. S. and Member of many foreign Literary Societies, was born March 13th, O. S. 1733, at Field-head, in Birstall parish, in the W. Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a manufacturer of cloth, and both his parents were perfons of refpectability among the Calviniftic Diffenters. Young Jofeph was brought up, from an early period, in the houfe of Mr Jofeph Keighly, who had married his aunt. Showing an early fondness for reading, he was fent to a school at Batley, where he acquired a complete knowledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. In his 19th year, he went to the academy at Daventry, where he became the firft pupil of Dr Ashworth, under whom he studied Divinity. In 1755, his 22d year, he was chofen affiftant minifter to the Independent congregation of Needham Market, Suffolk; and at this time had begun to entertain his Unitarian opinions. He had also become a student and admirer of the metaphyfical philofophy of Mr Hartley, of which during life, he continued the elucidator and advocate. In 1758, he was invited to be pastor of a congregation at Namptwich, in Chefire; where he opened a school, exhibited philofophical experiments, and drew up an English Grammar, which was his firft publication, and raised his fame as a man of abilities. Upon the death of the rev. Dr Taylor, tutor in divinity at Warrington Academy, Dr Aikin being chofen to fupply his place, Mr Priestley was appointed to that of belles lettres in the Dr's room, in 1761. He foon after married Mary, daughter of Mr Wilkinson of Berfham, near Wrexham; a lady of an excellent heart, and his faithful partner through life. Among the first of his publications at Warrington, were his Chart of Biography, and his Chart of Hiftory. He also published the fubftance of his lectures on General History and Politics. In thefe he fhowed himself an ardent admirer of the British Conftitution; at the fame time that he avowed his political principles to be founded on the original and indefeasible rights of man. He next publithed Lectures on the Theory and Hiftory of Language; and on the Principles of Oratory and Cri ticifm. He next fet about his great work the Hiftory of Electricity, which he brought down to the then present state of that science, and wherein he gave an account of many of his own experi. ments. The rft edition appeared at Warrington in 1767, 4to, and the 5th in 4to in 1794. In 1768, he accepted of an invitation from a' numerous and refpectable congregation at Leeds. Here he published many tracts upon polemical theology, particulary, Inftitutes of Natural and Revealed Religion: and a "View of the Prisciples and Conduct of the Proteftant Diffenters." In thefe works he thowed himfelt an open enemy to all unions of ecclefiaftical with political fyftems. His next publication at Leeds was The Hiftory and Prejent State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Calours: 2 vols. 410, 1772. About this period he began his celebrated experiments upon air. In 1770, through his merits as a philofopher, and the recommenda tion of Dr Price, the Eari of Shelburne invited him to refide with him, rather in the character of his literary and philofophical companion, than as his librarian. At this time his family refided at Calne in Wilts, near Bow-wood, Lord Shel burne's feat. The Doctor often accompanied his lordship to London, and mingled with the most eminent characters of the age. He alfo went with him to Paris, where he aftonished many of the most celebrated men of fcience; by his aure ing them of his firm belief in revelation. In 1775, he publifhed bis "Examination of Dr Reid's Inquiry into the Human mind: of Dr Beattie's Effay on Truth, and Dr Ofwald's Appeal to ComQ92 con fenfe." His object was to prepare the way éd. In this ftate of perfecution he was unhand for the Hartleian Theory of the human Mind; fomely treated by fome, who ought to have acted which he next published, wherein he expreffed his as the friends of order. Driven from his favour doubts of the Immateriality of the foul: And in ite refidence, his loffes were but poorly compen 1777, notwitstanding the obloquy occafioned by fated. After paffing fome time as a wanderer, an this work, he pulifhed Difquifitions relating to invitation to fucceed Dr Price afforded him a new Matter and Spirit, in which he supported the fame fettlement at Hackney, where he might have end doctrine. At this time alfo he stood forth as the ed his days comfortably, but the petty maligni champion of the philofophical doctrine of NECES ty of bigotry was not yet extinguished. He there SITY, which to him was a fource of the higheft foré refolved to leave Britain; and accordingly fatisfaction. both religious and moral. As his in 1794, embarked with his family for Northum friend Dr Price differed from him on these two berland, an inland town of Pennsylvania. His af laft mentioned points, (as well as refpecting the flictions were increased by the death of his excel divinity of our Saviour,) a correfpondence relative lent wife and fon. In the United States he was to them took place, which was published in one received with general respect; was heard as a volume, and affords a beautiful example of a de preacher by fome of the members of Congrefs bate carried on with mutual respect, affection, and and was offered the place of Chemical Profeffor urbanity. In the midft of thefe fpeculations, he at Philadelphia, but declined. Having collected a carried on his experiments upon air with fuccefs, new apparatus and library, he refumed his expe and enriched that branch of science with various riments, and publifhed the refults in the Ameri difcoveries (See AEROLOGY and CHEMISTRY, can Philofophical Tranfactions: wherein he con Indexes.) About this period, his Inflitutes of Retinued to defend the doctrine of Phlogifion to the ligion were continued: his Letters to a Philofophical Unbeliever, and his Harmony of the Evangelifts, and various fimilar tracts were published. The term of his engagement with Lord Shelburne being con. cluded with an annuity of L.150 a-year, he took up his refidence near Birmingham, not only on account of the advantage its manufactures afford. ed to his chemical pursuits, but alfo on account of its being the refidence of Meffrs Watt, Bolton, Keir, Withering, and other eminent men of scienc; whofe Lunarian Club exhibited a weekly conftellation of extraordinary talents. He was foon after invited to be pastor to a congregation of Diffenters at Birmingham, whom he found cordially at tached to him. From the Birmingham prefs foon iffued, his Letters to Bp. Newcome on the Duration of Chrift's Miniftry: his Hiftory of the Corruptions of Christianity and his Hiftory of Early Opinions refpecting Jefus Chrit. Controverfies now multiplied upon his hand. The difputes, which took place upon the Diffenter's bill for relief from the Test A&, furnished a new fubject of conteft; and he appealed to the people in his Familiar Letters to the Inhabitants of Birmingham, written with much force, but without caution. Previously to this, Dr Priestley had thewn his attachment to freedom, by his Effay on the First Principles of Government; and by a pamphlet on the State of Pubfic Liberty in this Country: and he had difplayed a. warm intereft in the caufe of America, when the difputes between Britain and her colonies broke out. The French Revolution was alfo viewed by him with fatisfaction. His fanguine hopes, as well as thofe of many others, prognofticated from it, the dawn of light and liberty throughout Europe; and he particularly expected from it the downfall of all ecclefiaftical eftablishments. In this tate of mutual exafperation, the celebration of the 14th of July 1791, by a public dinner, at which Dr Pricfley was not prefent, afforded the fignal for thofe favage riots, which have thrown a lafting difgrace on the town of Birmingham. See BIRMINGHAM.) Amidst the burning of chapels and private houses, Dr Priestley was hunted like a proclaimed criminal; and his houfe, liprary, MSS. and chemical apparatus, were deftroy. laft. He alfo published a comparison of the Jew ifh with Mahometan and Hindoo religions; and of the characters of Jesus Chrift and Socrates; in which he endeavoured, according to his views, to ftrengthen the bulwarks of Revelation. He even commenced the printing of two extensive works : viz. a Church History and an Expofition of the Scriptures but did not live to finish them: though he urged it upon his furviving friends. He alfo compofed, tranfcribed, and left in MS. ready for the prefs, "A Comparison of the different Systems of Grecian Philofophy with Christianity. His health began to decline in 1801; but his intellectual powers continued unimpaired to the laft; in fo much that he dictated fome corrections of his unfinished works the laft day of his life. He died on the 9th Feb. 1804, between 8 and 9 p. m. with fo much calmnefs, that his death was almoft unobferved; after repeatedly expreffing his confidence of rifing and meeting his friends again in a better world. Dr Aikin, from whofe Memoir of him in the Monthly Magazine we have borrowed these extracts, fums up his character in thefe words: "He was naturally difpofed to cheerfulnefs. In large and mixed companies he ufually spoke little. In his domestic relations he was unformly kind and affectionate. Not malice itself could ever fix a ftain on his private conduct, or impeach his integrity." *PRIESTLINESS- n. f. [from priefly.] The appearance or manner of a prieft. * PRIESTLY. adj. [from prieft.] Becoming a prieft; facerdotal; belonging to a prieft.-None that was blind or lame was capable of the priefly office. South. How can inceft fuit with holiness, PRIESTRIDDEN. adj. [priest and ridden.] Managed or governed by priests. Such a cant of high-church and perfecution, and being priestridden. Swift. PRIEST'S LEAP, a rugged and dangerous pafs of Ireland, in Cork, Munster; from the S: part of Bantry to the N. whence the road, into the county of Kerry, leads over MANGERTON, the loftiest mountain in Ireland, PRIESZNITSBACH, a river of Upper Saxony, which runs to the Elbe, 2 miles above Drefden, in Meisien. PRIFTCHE, a town of Brandenburg, middl Mark 4 miles SE of Brandenburg. To PRIEVE, for prove. Spenfer If it does not primarily intend it, yet certainly it may with greater advantage of refemblance, be applied to it, than to any other duty. South's Serthe mons PRIEUR, Philip, Le, a learned French writer, born in Normandy. He became profuflor of the belles lettres in the university of Paris; and wrote notes upon Tertullian and St Cyprian. He died at Patis, in 1680. PRIEURE. ALPS, J. *PRIG: cant word derived perhaps from prick, as he pricks up, be is pert; or from Brichtared, an epithet of reproach beftowed upon the prefbyterian teachers.] A pert, conceited fau ry, pragmatical little fellow.--The little man conEuded with "calling monfieur Mefnager an infigpincant prig. Spectator There have 1 feen fome active prig, To thew Itis parts, beftride a twig. Savift's Mifc. PRIGGLITZ, a town in Aufria; 2 miles N. of Glaggnitz. PRILIPO, a tange of mountains of European Turkey in Macedonia: 12 miles W. of the Var dar. PRILL. n. f. [rhombus. A birt or turbot. Airfaworth. PRILUKI, 2 towns of Ruffia: in Ekaterinof laf, 52 miles SW. of Elifabeth: 2, in Tchernigov, Ico miles SE. of Tchernigov. Lo so. 30, E. Ferro. Lat. 51. 3. N. PRILUTSKOI, 2 towns of Ruffia: 1. "Archangel, on the Dwina;. 28 miles E. of Schenkurk: 2. in Uftiug, on the Dwina; "20 miles N. of Uflug. PRIM ddj [by contraction for primitive, Formal; precife; affectedly nice. A ball of new dropt horfe's dung, Mingling with apples in the throng, Said to the pippin'plump and trim, See brother, how we apples fwim. Swift's Mife. To PRIM. 6. a. [from the adjective. To deck up precifely; to form to an affected nicety, PRIMA; a daughter of Romulus and Herfilia. PRIMACY... primatie, primace, Fr. primatus, Lat.] The chief ecclefiaftical station. He had now the primacy in his own hand. Clarendon. PRIME VIE, [Lat. i. e. the first paffages, among phyficians denote the whole alimentary dut; including the cefophagus, ftomach, and inteftines, with their appendages. 10 (1.) PRIMAGE. . . The freight of a fhip. Ainsworth. (2.) PRIMAGE, in commerce, is a fmall duty payable at the water fide, ufually about 12d. per ton, or 6d. per bale, to the mafters and mariners of athip. PRIMAL. adj. [primus, Lat] Firft. A word Oh! my is DVISOit smells to heav'n, It hath the primal, eldeft curfe upon't. Shak. PRIMARILY adv. [from primary.] Origially in the first intention; in the fit place, In fevers, where the heart primarily foffereth, we -pply medicines unto the wrifts. Brown's Vulg. Err. * PRIMARINESS. n. f. [from primary.] The ftate of being firft in act or intention. That which is peculiar must be taken from the primarinefs and fecondarinefs of the perception, Norris... (1.) PRIMARY. adj. [primarius, Lat.] 1. First in intention. The figurative notation of this word, and not the primary or literal, belongs to place. Hamriond. Original, fift.-Before that beginning, there was neither primary matter to be informed, nor form to inform, or any being but the Eternal. Raleigh's Hift. The church of Chrift in its primary inftitution, was made to be of a diffufive nature, Pearfon.-When the ruins both primary and fecondary were fettled, the waters of the abyfs began to fettle too. Burnet. -Thefe I call original or primary qualities of body, which produce fimple ideas in us, viz. folidity, extenfion, figure, and motion. Locke. 3. First in dignity; chief; principal. As the fix primary planets revolve about him, fo the fecondary ones are moved about them in the fame fefquilateral proportion of their periodical motions to their orbs, Bentley. (2.) PRIMARY QUALITIES OF BODIES. See METAPHYSICS, Sec. V, § 31. (1.) PRIMATE. n. . [primat, Fr. primas, Lat.] The chief ecclefiaftick. Our most reverend primate, eminent as well for promoting unanimity as learning. Holyday.-When the power of the church was firft eftablished, the archbishops of Canterbury and York had then no prebeminence one over the other; the former being primate over the Southern, as the latter was over the Northern parts. Ayliffe-The late and prefent primate, and the lord archbishop of Dublin have left memorials of their bounty. Swift. (2.) PRIMATE, in church polity, is an archbihop, who is invefted with a jurisdiction over other bishops. PRIMATESHIP. n. [from primate.] The dignity or office of a primate. PRIMATIAL, adj. Of or belonging to a primate or a primacy. PRIMATTICCIO, Francis, an eminent Italian painter, born at Bologna, in 1490. He excelled in reprefenting battles in ftucco and baffo relievo. Francis I. employed him to procure antiques at Rome for his palace at Fontainbleau. He died in 1570, aged 80. PRIMBKENAU, a town of Silefia, in Glogau; containing 2 churches, with manufactures of paper and iron work; 9 miles E. of Sprottau, and 14 SW. of Glogau. PRIMDI, the first new French calendar (1.) PRIME. adj. blooming ** day of the decade, in the See CALENDAR, 3. § [primus, Lat.] 1. Early; His ftarry helm unbuckl'd, fhew'd him prime In manhood, where youth ended. Milton. 2. Principal; firft rate.-Divers of prime quality were, for refufing to pay the fame, committed to prifon. Clarendon Nor can I think, that God will fa deftroy Us his prime creatures, dignify'd fo high. Milt. -Humility |