primogenitiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

primogenitive (comparative more primogenitive, superlative most primogenitive)

1. Firstborn.
   • 2014, Roland Mushat Frye, The Renaissance Hamlet, page 68:

     This left Henry de Bourbon, the Huguenot King of Navarre, as the primogenitive heir to the French throne, an eventuality the Catholic League in France was unwilling to accept.

   • 2017, Simon Pearse Brodbeck, The Mahabharata Patriline:

     The primogenitive male line is said here to carry with it possession of the state—the patrimony of the primogenitive male ancestors.

2. Based on or pertaining to primogeniture.
   • 1834 May, C.C.P., “The Evils of Primogenitive Inheritance”, in The Monthly Repository, volume 8, page 349:

     The system of primogenitive inheritance utterly destroys this salutary principle ; and for the following reasons:

   • 1985, Albion - Volume 17, page 394:

     If a society must be absolutely primogenitive before the word patrilineal is applied to it, then no society has ever been patrilineal.