primogenital (primojenital)

[L. pri mogenita, the rights of the first-born (see pri mogeniture ), + -al. Cf. LL. primogenital is, original.] Primogenitary. Those garments Rebecca put on Jacob, his sacerdotal vestment; but it was still the primogenital right, till a Evelyn, True Religion, II. 21. family separated. Genesis, as a fundamental factor in evolution, may be more intelligently considered under some of its subordinate phases, as heredity, physiological selection, sexual selection, primogenital selection, sexual differentiation, including philoprogeneity, hybridity, etc. Science , XII. 124.