palmary

• “palmary" -- the prevalence of episcopacy as a recognized institution -- we may say boldly that all the facts point the other way.”

  The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886

• “But let us examine this principle a little more attentively—for it is the palmary one.”

  I. Inaugural

• “Macarius the Eucharist was a palmary argument against Nestorianism.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

• “The palmary text of Origen should be referred to "De principiis",”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “Caesarea, cannot have had at that early period the palmary importance which the author of Acts attaches to it.”

  The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries

• “Heracleitus and his followers may prate of a world of flux; but there are men to whom the recollections of their fellows ever turn confidently, secure of finding them in the same place; and of such, sir, you are the palmary example among my acquaintance.”

  Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

• “Progress of Philosophy or of Wisdom is a palmary instance of progress achieved out of the internal resources of that which progresses.”

  Progress and History

• “Swedenborg's case is of course the palmary one of audita et visa, serving as a basis of religious revelation.”

  The Varieties of Religious Experience

• “The palmary miracle of all, the Resurrection, stands entirely by itself.”

  Historical and Political Essays

• “But my friend, an anxiously religious man, now, as then, very dear to me, a Protestant still, pointed out the palmary words of St. Augustine, which were contained in one of the extracts made in the”

  Apologia pro Vita Sua

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