(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:14:15

Pri*mi"ti*a (?), n.; pl. Primitiae (#) (Primitias (#), obs.). [L. primitiae, pl., fr. primus first. Cf. Premices.] Eng.Law

The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

The primitias of your parsonage. Spenser.

 

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