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Primace: f. Primacie; excellencie; chiefe rule, highest estate, greatest authoritie; and particularly, an Ecclesiasticall dignitie, or commaund ouer all the Archbishops and Bishops of a Kingdome, or Prouince.

Primat: m. A Primat, or Metropolitan.

Primauté: f. as Primace. Prime. Le p. des chevaliers. A prime Knight, the Paragon, or flower, of Knights.

Prime: f. Primero at Cards; also, the first houre of the day (in Summer at foure a clocke, in Winter at eight;) also, a small Goldsmithes weight, whereof 24 make but one graine.  Soupes de prime. Monasticall Browesse; cheese and bread put into pottage; or chopped Parseley strewed or layed together with the fat of the Beefe-pot, on the bread.

Prime: com. Thinne, slender, exile, small; also, as Prim; whence;  Cheveux primes. Smooth, or delicate haire.

Prime. (Adverb.) Primely, chiefely; forwardly, soonest, first.  À prime. Whileare, but now, but euen now.  Retournez vous au prime? ''Came you backe no sooner? came you againe but now?''

Prime-barbe. The downe, or mossie beard on a young mans chinne.

Primement. Chiefely, principally, expressely; also, thinly, narrowly; also, exactly, curiously.

Primerain: m. aine: f. Earlie, timelie, forward, that springeth, buddeth, or commeth forth with the first.

Primeroge: com. as Primerain; whence;  Figues primeroges. Starued figges, or the first figges that come vpon the tree, which being too forward, commonly thriue not.

Primerouge. as Primeroge. Primes. Or primes. Now at the last, onely at this time, not before now, or but euen now.

Prime-vere: f. The Spring; also, the Primerose; also, a Cowslip.

Primeur: f. Smallneße, thinnesse, exilitie, slenderneße; also, primenesse, perfection, excellencie; also, forwardneße.

Primices: f. First fruits; the first fruits of the yeare; the firstlings of yearelie fruits.

Primicial: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, first fruits.

Primitif: m. iue: f. Primitiue, the first, which hath no beginning from another.

Primogeniture: f. Prime, or first birth; eldership, or the being eldest; the title of the eldest, or first-borne child.

Primordial: m. ale: f. Originall, of an off-spring, first rising, beginning from.

Prin. Thinne, subtill, piercing, sharpe.

Prince: m. A Prince, or Chiefe; a Monarch, Soueraigne, great Lord, great Potentate: Some good French Authors mention six kinds of Princes; the first they stile Simples Princes; no better then Magistrates, or Officers of Soueraigntie; such as were the Patriarchs and Judges among the Jewes; the Kings of Lacedemonia; the auncient Kings of France; the first Kings, and (at least in apparance) the first Emperours, of Rome; the moderne Dukes of Venice; and (in Bodins opinion) the Emperors of Germanie: The second, Princes subjects; owners of Soueraigntie within their owne countries, and yet subiect (one way or other) vnto greater Princes; of which ranke are the Kings protected by the great Turke; those that liue vnder Prester Iohn; the ancient Princes of Italie while they acknowledged, and held of the Empire; the ancient Dukes and Earles of Fraunce, while they affoorded their Kings no more then a bare homage, and some small attendance in the warres; the moderne King of Bohemia, and Princes of the Empire: The third, Princes Seigneurs; which haue an absolute power ouer the persons, and propertie in the possessions, of their subiects; as had the foure first Monarchs of Assiria, Media, Persia, and Egypt; and as at this day the great Turke, Prester Iohn, the Muscouite, and some other such Tyrants haue: The fourth, Princes Souverains (more moderate, and commodious for mankind, then the former) enioy an absolute, but publike Soueraigntie, not (much) intermedling with the priuate; of which kind, the later Emperours of Rome, with those of Constantinople, were, and at this day the most of the Kings, and soueraigne Princes of Christendome are: The fift, Princes de race, ou du sang; viz. the children, or off-spring of soueraigne Princes, who by their birth are capable of, or may come vnto, a Crowne; within which branch we may comprehend the eldest sonnes of soueraigne Kings; who not hauing any particular affectation, or acceße, of title by creation (as our Prince) or by donation (as the eldest sonne of France) are tearmed simply Princes: The last, Princes, ou Seigneurs, de Principautez, doe seeme to deriue their dignitie from certaine auncient, and powerfull vassalls of the Crowne; which hauing, in emulation of the Dukes and Earles of their time, incroached on all rights of Soueraigntie within their owne dominions, and wanting (what the others had) a Title to distinguish them from lesse, or lesse absolute, Lords, verie willingly tooke this vpon them: Since which time the Kings of France reuniting, by seuerall meanes, the Estates of these Vsurpers vnto the Crowne, yet haue beene pleased to continue the name in such of their fauourites as haue sued for it; And at this day some great Lords, which desire to be held Princes, are curious to procure one of their Townes to be made a Principauté, and afterwards bestow it, or (at least) the Title of it, on their eldest sonnes: But these are no true Princes, and therefore in all aßemblies they be ranked beneath Earles.  Ieux des princes. Such sports as are delightfull, or pleasing, to those that vse them.   Les princes se servent des hommes comme le laboureur des abeilles: Pro. viz. First take their honey from them, and then smoother, or expell, them.  Les princes tiennent tousiours leurs comptes, ils ne perdent iamais rien: Prov. Princes are excellent reckoners, for they seldome loose ought.  Les princes ne veulent point de servitudes limitez: Pro. Princes will not be serued on conditions.  Haine de prince signifie mort d'homme: Pro. Hee's neere his death thats hated by his Prince.

Princesse: f. A Princeße.

Principal: m. The Principall, or Head of a Societie; a principall, chiefe, head man, or matter; also, the summe, chiefe knot, maine point, of a matter; also, the principall; the summe in question, or let out vnto vse.

Principal: m. ale: f. Principall, soueraigne, most speciall, chiefest, greatest, highest.

Principalement. Principally, chiefely, most especially.

Principauté: f. A Principalitie; the Estate, or Seat, of a Soueraigne Prince; also, an extraordinarie, and extrauagant Seignorie, bearing, rather then deseruing,