In one place he speaks of being "primus in Anglia lauri coronam gestans," and elsewhere he professes to be magister grammatices.
This work he calls his Annus Primus Historico-Naturalis.
Primus in Adriaca formis impressit aenis Vrbe libros Spira genitus de stirpe Johannes," and the use of Chalcographi as a name for printers.
Not the least of the difficulties with which Hastings, the only Governor-General appointed by the East India Company, was confronted arose from frequent opposition in his own Council, where he was merely primus inter pares.
Footnote 101: The primusor primicerius enjoyed the dignity of a senator, and though only a tribune, he ranked with the military dukes.
But even this is still short of my desire, which is not merely to recognise him as primus inter pares, but to treat his testimony as paramount, and as constituting a class by itself, with which no other literary testimony can compete.
Casaubon measures the Strophe by Anapaests--In the Polyglott, the epitrotus primus is the metrimensura.
On Vacarius, see "Magister Vacarius primus juris Romani in Anglia professor ex annalium monumentis et opere accurate descripto illustratus," by C.
Caesalpinus is called by Linnaeus primus verus systematicus, the first true systematic botanist.
My own uncle and Councillor Primus of Croye," she concluded, hopefully.
You know that Messer Hugolin, Councillor Primus of Croye, is my uncle, my mother's own brother.
Does this seem an old and hardly remembered tale to you, Anthony Hugolin, Councillor Primus of Croye, and a rich man, if one may judge from the yearly tax rate that stands opposite your name in Dom Gillian's head list?
Even my uncle Hugolin, Councillor Primus of Croye, cuts a better figure when, clad in his state robe of silver-fox fur, he presides over his parliament of shopkeepers.
I want to know who you are, and who Primus is, and whether there's any other being with whom Primus could possibly have a filial relationship.
Approximately one and a quarter days have gone by at the Earth's normal rate since Primus lost his memory," Secundus said.
Feeling that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, Herman carefully explained to Primus what "sleep" and "dreams" were.
I would characterize Primus as a very steady person, extremely accurate in his work, but not very imaginative.
We also had a man who proposed to reawaken Mr. Primus's memory by electric shock, but Mr. Primus is quite impervious to currents of electricity and we were unable to hit upon an acceptable substitute.
I would feel that way myself--if I had the slightest reason for believing that Primus ever had a father.
According to Herman's interpretation, Primus was a case of arrested infantile sexualism, with traces of conversion hysteria and a strong Oedipus complex.
Did Primus know what a bed was, or what a bolster was, or a candle?
Primus stepped into the room, crossed to the couch and lay down placidly.
Primus looked up, and a huge smile broke over his face.
This unwonted sight at once banished all further thoughts of sleep; the Primus was lighted, a cup of chocolate swallowed, and out we went.
The cooking-case was taken out, and soon the Primus was humming in a way that told us it would not be long before the chocolate was ready.
Everything was put in its place, the Primus lighted, and the cooker filled with snow.
The Primushummed and hissed, and the pemmican-pot bubbled and spurted.
The Primushums softly during the whole meal, and the temperature in the tent is quite pleasant.
Primus is my brother's eldest son, and he once spent his Easter holidays with me.
Illustration] Soon after Primus came to me I learned that his schoolmaster had given him a holiday task.
The only authors they consulted me about were "two big swells" called Descartes and James Payn, of whom Primus discovered that the one could always work best in bed, while the other thought Latin and Greek a mistake.
This they liked so much that Primus papered the inside of his box with pictures from it.
He and Primus had a scheme for seizing a lugger and becoming pirates, when Primuswas to be captain, William John first lieutenant, and old Poppy a prisoner.
Primus and Johnny Fox strolled into Holborn, knocked a bootblack's cap off, and returned with lumps on their foreheads.
Illustration] As soon as he arrived Primus laid siege to the heart of William John, captured it in six hours, and demoralized it in twenty-four.
Primus was now a year and a half older and his spelling had improved.
Primus troubled his head little about the task while the composition of it was yet afar off; but as his time drew near he referred to it with indignation, and to his master's action in prescribing it as a "low trick.
I did not know that Primus had risen equal to the occasion until one day after his departure, when I received his epistle from the schoolmaster, who wanted me to say whether it was a true statement.
I have said that I always took care not to know how much tobacco I smoked in a week, and therefore I may be hinting a libel on Primus when I say that while he was with me the Arcadia disappeared mysteriously.
Illustration] Though we all pretended to be glad when Primus went, we spoke of him briefly at times, and I read his letters aloud at our evening meetings.
It was the first King's regiment landed in India in 1754, hence its proud legend "Primus in Indis.
Far more true, and more just to the grandeur of man, it would have been to say--Primus in orbe deos fecit sensus infiniti.
Superstition is no vice in the constitution of man: it is not true that, in any philosophic view, primus in orbe deos fecit timor --meaning by fecit even so much as raised into light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
