Christ's primogeniture is threefold: (1) From eternity the "first-begotten" of the Father (Col 1: 15); (2) As the first-born of. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Yesterday's term was primogeniture, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #75] Reference
This meant that no undemocratic and feudalistic practices, such as primogeniture and entail, could exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
First, what exactly is "primogeniture"? liberalism | Comments Off. From Wordnik.com. [Stop The ACLU] Reference
Saudi Arabia has no system of "primogeniture" (first-son succession.). From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Star > Editorial] Reference
• Osborne Middle School student Mackenzie Mincey, eliminated on "primogeniture". From Wordnik.com. [Gwinnett Daily Post Headlines] Reference
"primogeniture," then the right of the first, ie., "birthright." had been under consideration between the brothers on a previous occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Their law did not demand primogeniture as inalienable. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
The explanation is the GOP tradition of primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [Hagel Could Have a Shot] Reference
For passing along to the primogeniture as they called it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2004] Reference
Extra credit for those of you who can define "primogeniture.". From Wordnik.com. [Election 2000: The Final Exam] Reference
The system of primogeniture and entail adopted by the Southern. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
Under both rules the law of primogeniture sometimes held force. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
Whether primogeniture is a good or a bad thing in England or the. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
You know, and it's easy when you have this kind of primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2008] Reference
"Well, I believe they started with the vexed question of primogeniture,". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
States descend in their families by primogeniture in the ordinary manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
All that English economists contemplate is the abolition of primogeniture and entail. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
It was an antechamber to her bedroom, and peculiarly her own by right of primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The process was accentuated in the British realm by the system of primogeniture and entail. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 10~ Adaptations to New Technology] Reference
Until now, primogeniture has largely determined which family members will join the business. From Wordnik.com. [Grapes Without Wrath] Reference
Chou and the developing primogeniture, children of secondary wives had a lower social status. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of primogeniture as the rule of inheritance?. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
This right of the first-born son to the whole of the father's estate was known as primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
He has not said that such power must be hereditary, and descend on the principle of primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
The answer, I soon learned, was primogeniture — or more precisely, ending primogeniture in America. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 7] Reference
"The rights of primogeniture were among the most noble, honorable, and spiritual in the ancient world". From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
It is therefore the antithesis of the right of primogeniture, whereby real estate falls to the eldest son. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
In compelling Esau to surrender his right of primogeniture, he seems to make an illicit and frivolous compact. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
Thus, in the discussion on primogeniture, when Isaac Pendleton proposed, as a compromise, that they should adopt the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
In Canada there is no law of primogeniture and, at a seigneur's death, the land went to daughters as well as to sons. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
George, a younger son -- which implied a great deal in those days of entail and primogeniture -- received the farm on the. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington: Farmer] Reference
The grantees in their turn settled these holdings in fee tail on the oldest son in accordance with the law of primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
Under the feudal system of the Chou strict primogeniture among the nobility existed: the fief went to the oldest son by the main wife. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
But it can hardly be doubted by a thoughtful student of history that the adoption of primogeniture in the early days of feudalism in other. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
John Winthrop's father died in 1717, when, according to Connecticut, but not English, law of primogeniture, Winthrop received as eldest son. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference
Public challenge to Malcolm Gladwell: examine the "glass ceiling," the long shadow cast by both rich and poor men's forms of primogeniture. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Snortland: Gender Elephant in the Gladwell's Outlier Living Room] Reference
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