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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That principle of succession in royal families, especially in the families of the Byzantine emperors, in accordance with which a younger son, if born in the purple—that is, after the succession of his parents to the throne—was preferred to an older son who was not.
Wiktionary
- n. rare The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.
Etymologies
- Latin porphyro genitus, from Ancient Greek purple + to be born. (Wiktionary)
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