primus

• The primus was his valet, a servant found in every Viennese household at the time. —  Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
• Nor could Khamenei call on Sistani - for he'd then be acknowledging Sistani's status as the primus inter pares of the Shiite clergy.
• More shockingly, the speaker goes on to offer a most unfortunate analogy, likening the "primus" of the Church, to the "monarchy" of God the Father within the Trinity. —  orrologion
• A textus primus or "text first" argument is one which rests primarily on the seven Harry Potter books for its conclusions about their meaning but which includes knowledge about the context of this work, especially with respect to English literature and the symbolist tradition in which Ms. Rowling writes. —  HogwartsProfessor.com
• Go to the bottom of all those clever advocacies for unity of Church and State, and you will meet, as their primus motor, the worm of comfort and human inertia All Churches and Christian institutions of the present time, however wonderful they may be, are only a dim prophecy of the coming Christian worship in truth and spirit. —  The Agony of the Church (1917)

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