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primer

PRI'MER, a. First; original. [Not in use.]



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PRI'MER, a. First; original. [Not in use.]


PRI'MER, a.

First; original. [Not in use.] Drayton.


PRI'MER, n.

  1. A small prayer-book for church service, or an office of the Virgin Mary.
  2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read.

Prim"er
  1. One who, or that which, primes

    ; specifical
  2. First; original; primary.

    [Obs.] "The primer English kings." Drayton.

    Primer fine (O. Eng. Law), a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone. -- Primer seizin (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.

  3. Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.

    The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet.

  4. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.

    As he sat in the school at his prymer. Chaucer.

  5. A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.

    Great primer type.

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Primer

PRI'MER, adjective First; original. [Not in use.]

PRIM'ER, noun A small prayer book for church service, or an office of the virgin Mary.

1. A small elementary book for teaching children to read.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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critic

CRITIC, n. [Gr., a judge or discerner, to judge, to separate, to distinguish. See Crime.]

1. A person skilled in judging of the merit of literary works; one who is able to discern and distinguish the beauties and faults of writing. In a more general sense, a person skilled in judging with propriety of any combination of objects, or of any work of art; and particularly of what are denominated the Fine Arts. A critic is one who, from experience, knowledge, habit or taste, can perceive the difference between propriety and impropriety, in objects or works presented to his view; between the natural and unnatural; the high and the low, or lofty and mean; the congruous and incongruous; the correct and incorrect, according to the established rules of the art.

2. An examiner; a judge.

And make each day a critic on the last.

3. One who judges with severity; one who censures or finds fault.

CRITIC, a. Critical; relating to criticism, or the art of judging of the merit of a literary performance or discourse, or of any work in the fine arts. [See Critical.]

CRITIC, v.i. To criticise; to play the critic. [Little used.]

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