Priest vs Primest - What's the difference?
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A religious clergyman who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
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(Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
(prime)
First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence
* Tennyson
* Milton
First in excellence, quality, or value.
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
(mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
* Milton
(obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
(Christianity, historical) One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
* Spenser
(obsolete) The early morning.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
The earliest stage of something.
* Hooker
* Waller
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
* Eustace
* Dryden
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The chief or best individual or part.
* Jonathan Swift
(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
(algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
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, title= (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
The symbol
(chemistry, obsolete) 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.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
(obsolete) To be renewed.
* Quarles
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
(of a steam boiler) 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.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
(math) To mark with a prime mark.
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As a proper noun priest
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Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
Derived terms
* high priest * priestdom * priestess * priesthood * priest-king * priestlyCoordinate terms
* imam, guru, rabbi, sanghaSee also
* archbishop * archimandrite * bishop * brother * clergy * clergyman * cleric * dean * father * monk * Monsignor * nun * prelate * vicarReferences
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Anagrams
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Adjective
(head)prime
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) prime, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
- Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
- prime forests
- She was not the prime cause, but I myself.
- This is a prime location for a bookstore.
- Thirteen is a prime number.
- His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime / In manhood where youth ended.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* greatest, most important, main, primary, principal, top * excellent, top quality * earliest, first, original * (having no nontrivial factors) indivisible * (dividing a factor of any product it divides) *Noun
(en noun)- Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime .
- They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Prime
- in the very prime of the world
- Hope waits upon the flowery prime .
- cut off in their prime
- the prime of youth
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- Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime , didn’t you?
- Give him always of the prime .
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Synonyms
* bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak * (chief or best individual or part) choice, prize, quality, select * prime number (when an integer)Derived terms
(algebra) * cousin prime * primality * prime constellation * prime number * sexy prime * twin primeEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to primage.Verb
(prim)- You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
- I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
- Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, / As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.
- to prime a witness
- The boys are primed for mischief.
- (Thackeray)
- to prime trees