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Prime

adjective

1.

First in rank or degree. Synonym: premier. "The prime minister"

2.

Used of the first or originating agent.

3.

Of superior grade. Synonyms: choice, prize, quality, select. "Prime beef" , "Prize carnations" , "Quality paper" , "Select peaches"

4.

Of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers.

5.

Being at the best stage of development. Synonym: meridian.

noun

1.

A number that has no factor but itself and 1. Synonym: prime quantity.

2.

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak.

3.

The second canonical hour; about 6 a.m..

4.

The time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest. Synonym: prime of life.

verb

(past & past part. primed; pres. part. priming)

1.

Insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing. "Prime a mine"

2.

Cover with a primer; apply a primer to. Synonyms: ground, undercoat.

3.

Fill with priming liquid.

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... crossed the park, and passed through the garden, which was gay with flowers, though much less magnificent than Mr. Harrison's. Emma said, mamma was a great gardener, and accordingly they found her cutting off flowers past their prime. She gave Violet a bouquet of geranium and heliotrope, and conducted her to her room with that motherly kindness and solicitude so comfortable to a lonely guest in ...

— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... I practised my profession in the capital city of a state ruled over by a maharajah, who, although he had been a brave and honourable man in his prime, had degenerated into a mere voluptuary, spending his days in the companionship of nautch girls and disreputable men, indulging constantly in immoderate potations of strong wine, and given at times to the use of bhang, which does more than anything else to dull the faculties ...

— Tales of Destiny • Edmund Mitchell

... see the Minister of War wishes him not to be lost to his country. I dare not complain, but it is a great loss for me; I never met with a better head, or a more upright heart. That man was formed to be a prime minister anywhere.' I declined to accompany him at the time, saying, 'My wife is enceinte; I cannot make up my mind to leave her. Allow me some time, and I will join you wherever you may be. I have remained faithful to your Majesty in better times, and you may reckon ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... should be directed to bringing her to full maturity in the coming time, a man must be prepared to labour for an end that may be realised only in another generation. Consider how he disposes his plans for his individual life. His boyhood and youth are directed that his manhood and prime may be the golden age of life, full-blooded and strong-minded, with clear vision and great purpose and high hope, all justified by some definite achievement. A man's prime is great as his earlier years have ...

— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney

... from within. With all its unrivalled beauties the Ring as a drama is a monstrosity. It turns upon motives which are not apparent from the actions and have to be explained in dreary and most undramatic length. Its very foundation is wrong; its central figure, the prime author of the new and more blessed world which is to follow, is the offspring of an incestuous union for which there is no occasion whatever. The myth itself has sometimes been held responsible, and it has been asserted that Wagner had to reproduce the tradition ...

— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight

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