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great primer
noun
, Printing.
- an 18-point type of a size larger than Columbian, formerly used for Bibles.
great primer
noun
- (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 18 point
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Word History and Origins
Origin of great primer1
First recorded in 1675–85
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Example Sentences
Erickson shot the words at him staccato-fashion, as if they were things known from Great Primer days.
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I saw all this as plainly as if it had all been printed in great-primer type, instead of working itself out in her features.
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By 1544 a fount of great primer had been completed and a book printed in it, the Praeparatio Euangelica of Eusebius.
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It was not until 1757 that he published his first work, a Virgil in royal quarto, with great-primer letters.
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His great primer, for which he has been especially noted by some bibliographers, was very probably that used by Richard Faques.
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