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Definition: great primer
Primer
\Prim"er\, n. [Originally, the book read at prime, the
first canonical hour. LL. primae liber. See
Prime, n., 4.]
1. Originally, a small prayer book for church service,
containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a
work of elementary religious instruction.
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The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
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2. A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a
reading or spelling book for a beginner.
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As he sat in the school at his prymer. --Chaucer.
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3. (Print.) A kind of type, of which there are two species;
one, called
long primer, intermediate in size between
bourgeois and small pica [see
Long primer]; the other,
called
great primer, larger than pica.
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Note: Great primer type.
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