primogenitive

English

primogenitive (comparative more primogenitive, superlative most primogenitive)

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.
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.

primogenitive (uncountable)

(obsolete) primogeniture
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  the primogenitive and due of birth