It is important, also, as proving the residence here of the 'prima cohors Hispanorum.
The station of ÆSICA, according to the Notitia, was about the year 430, garrisoned by the cohors prima Astorum.
The date assigned to it is the fifth or early in the sixth century, although the several words are divided, and some various readings stand in the margin prima manu.
They thus endeavoured to resist Epicureanism even on the ground where the latter seems prima facie strongest; in its appeal, namely, to the natural pleasure-seeking of all living things.
If the evidence is of such a nature as to prove a prima facie case, what then?
The arrest in fact falls to the ground, unsubstantiated, there being no prima facie case.
I involuntarily seized it with my hands and finished amidst one of the greatest receptions ever given to any prima donna in my time, and I felt I was not forgotten by the people of San Francisco whom I had served for twenty-seven years.
There must be a reason for it, and it is not the lack of voices in America, for we have given many fine voices, including the only prima donnas who have risen to the height of distinction in our day.
Woe be to the poor prima donna who sang better or had more applause or favors than she did.
The authority and powers of directors are primafacie those necessary for carrying on the ordinary business of the company, but it is usual to define the more important of such powers in the articles of association.
The directors have prima facie the confidence of the shareholders, and it is not for the court to say that such confidence is misplaced.
There is hence prima facie reason to suppose that these works represent not the Pali Canon, but a somewhat similar Sanskrit collection.
As the crowd dribbled away, Selene recognized two of the prima donnas and the first contralto of the opera, and she nudged Belle in a sardonic manner.
No concessions were to be made to the prima donna or vain tenor: the music had to be dramatically appropriate.
Now, Wagner, if he scarcely considered the prima donna, took great pains with the lesser characters, and Brangaena never opens her mouth without giving us something of magical beauty and tenderness.
In the next act the prima donna has her opportunity.
Prima facie, it seems a dreadful doctrine to claim a place for war as amongst the evils that are salutary to man; but conscientiously I hold it to be such.
It seems cruel to mulct a pretty prima donna for condescending to acknowledge an encore.
That evening the great prima donna surpassed herself; she was recalled time and again; the audience were wildly enthusiastic; almost every number was encored.
Name the prima donnas who have appeared in the operas of Virgil and Horace since the 'Virgilii Opera,' and 'Horatii Opera' were composed.
If it wasn't a chorus lady, it was a prima donna, which was not far in these degenerate days from being the same thing.
Through her veil their former prima donna studied them carefully, with a purpose in mind.
A comic-opera star would have sent her press agent round to see what advertising could be got out of the incident; a prima donna would have appealed to her primo tenore, for the same purpose.
It's your confoundedprima donna; she's at the bottom of all this, take my word for it.
The whilom prima donna dropped fifty centesimi into Pompeo's palm, and he bowed to the very gunwale of the boat.
The lady whom you call my prima donna knew him and he knew her, and she must have had mighty good reasons for running.
Says no sign of prima donna as yet, but believes her to be on board.
When we speak of her, the manager smiles and says nothing; and as none of us has seen the backer, Mr. Worth thinks that she herself is the prima donna and backer in one.
Well, fate writes that Kitty's mysterious prima donna and my Lady of the Mask are one and the same person.
Signora," he said politely but coldly to the whilom prima donna, "will you do me the honor to explain this?
I was very foolish," said the erstwhile prima donna.
The singing of the prima donna, however, had created a highly favorable impression among the critics; but she was unknown, and to be unknown was next to positive failure, financially.
The tenor of the San Marco troupe rose with the prima donna.
Capricciosa; Kitty Killigrew's unknown prima donna; and all he had to do was to take the morning train for Venice, and twenty-four hours later he would be prowling through the Campo Santa Maria Formosa.
Resurrection afresh; and this time, his phrase is observed to be the Greek equivalent for the Latin “prima sabbati;” viz.
That this would be idiomatically represented in Latin by the phrase “prima sabbati,” we have already seen.
It is a writ of right, and may not be refused to one who shows a prima facie case entitling him to be discharged or bailed.
Time in Dreamland flies fast, and I soon found myself at one of the Operas together with the Scandinavian gentleman; and there, to my surprise, I found the young singer was a prima donna.
I may further add that the above is the raison d'etre why prize courts of different countries make it their theory, unlike ordinary civil or criminal courts, that they administer prima facie the law of nations and not lex loci.
Yahwistic principles and all that might prima facie be deduced from them, together with so much of custom and tradition as had been accepted as compatible with these principles.
Tobacco, ale, and apple vendors forced their way among them, and even before the curtain was lifted a reek of tobacco-smoke and beer rose from the crowd impatiently waiting for the prima donna to be shaved.
The curtain was at once rung down, and the director, stating that the prima donna had been seized with sudden and alarming indisposition, dismissed the audience.
I desire to see this mysterious prima donna for more than one reason.
The irate prima donna flashed upon him a terrible glance.
Truly, it was a grand assemblage, one that should delight the heart and flatter the vanity of even the most capricious of prima donnas.
The director of the theatre was standing anxiously beside the suffering prima donna, mentally calculating the chances of her ability to appear the following night.
When they were alone, the prima donna turned fiercely upon the Captain, exclaiming: "And you profess to love me, too!
Unmindful of the presence of the Captain and Léon, the designing prima donna at once began to remove the costume she had worn during the opera.
The prima donna took the missive from the man and glanced at the address upon the envelope.
The prima donna's brother Léon had turned out to be a woman masquerading in male attire, no other than Mlle.
This had at first caused a coldness between the revengeful prima donna and her admirer, but a reconciliation had ultimately taken place between them and they were now man and wife.
If Prima is drifting away, drift after her, don't hold back.
Regarded from the first-mentioned point of view it is a merciful will (voluntas misericordiae) and is generally called first or antecedent will (voluntas prima s.
The non-existence of merits prior to the bestowal of the prima gratia vocans, so positively asserted in this definition, plainly excludes any and all natural merit de condigno.
Similarly, too, the first grace of justification (gratia prima habitualis) cannot be strictly merited by the sinner preparing for justification.
No adult person can merit the first grace of assistance (gratia prima actualis), nor any one of the series of actual graces which follow it, and by which justification ultimately comes to pass.
When we speak of the absolute gratuity of grace, therefore, we mean the very first or initial grace (gratia prima vocans), by which the work of salvation is begun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prima" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
