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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Prī'mate, n.

noun

n. [Lat. prīmus, prīmatis, from prīmus, the first; Fr. & Pr. primat, It. primate, Sp. primado, primaz, Pg. primas.]

  1. The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; an archbishop.
  2. (Zoöl.) One of a group of mammals, in the Linnæan system, characterized by pectoral mammæ, or breasts, and by having four incisors. The group includes man, monkeys, and bats. [Obs.]