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English
Etymology
From primate + -ical.
Adjective
primatical (comparative more primatical, superlative most primatical)
- (ecclesiastical, archaic) Of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).
a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “ that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. , London: Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, , published 1680, →OCLC, page 255:Before I proceed any further I ſhall briefly dravv ſome Corollaries from this Hiſtorical account vvhich I have given of the original and grovvth of Metropolitical, Primatical, and Patriarchal Juriſdiction.
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