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1 primare [ML < CL primus+-are] , to calculate the first day of, to assign (by means of table or rule) a first day to (lunation or lunar month); b (impers. pass.). ex quo accideret, si omnes lunaciones continue xxxviij annorum solarium ~arentur per distincciones que fierent secundum alternacionem xxx dierum et xxix, quod ultima ex illis diceretur prima quando in celo videretur plena lumine, hoc est in medio lunacionis Bacon VI 68; ab illo anno collocabimus primaciones lunacionum secundum regulam communem unam ‥, donec tot lunaciones sic ~averimus quousque ex fraccionibus una dies superexcrescat Ib. 69; in quinto ‥ anno cycli xixlis, quando luna ~atur per quinarium ‥ . similiter in xiijo anno quando luna ~atur per tresdecim ‥ Ib. 126—7.  b sic ‥ accidit error in primacione lune per decemnovenalem, secundum quem ~atur in kalendario Bacon VI 53.
2 primare [CL primus+-are] 1 (arch.) to prepare (surface) for painting or gilding, to prime. 1309 in j pictor’ ad ~andum claves volture Fabr. Exon. 47; 1317 in xvij magnis clavis de petr’ ~and’ apprestand’ usque ad aurum Ib. 79. 2 to lay a first course of (a structure). 1383 in stipendiis Willelmi Mason per xv dies, Philippi Bedecok’ cementarii per x dies, de novo ~ancium dictum molendinum subter les grondselles MinAc 1209/15 m. 8 sched. 2.

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