primate

1. A senior clergyman and dignitary (synset 109826498)
   is a type of: priest - a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
   specific instances:

   • gloomy dean, inge, william ralph inge - English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954)
   • francisco jimenez de cisneros, jimenez de cisneros - prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517)
   • cardinal newman, john henry newman, newman - English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
   • armand jean du plessis, cardinal richelieu, duc de richelieu, richelieu - French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)
   • desmond tutu, tutu - South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)
   • james usher, james ussher, usher, ussher - Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)
   • william of wykeham, wykeham - English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404)
   • stefan wyszynski, wyszynski - Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981)
   same as: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate
2. Any placental mammal of the order Primates;
   Has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet (synset 102472545)
   is a type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
   subtypes:

   • simian - an ape or monkey
   • ape - any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
   • anthropoid - any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
   • hominoid - a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea
   • hominid - a primate of the family Hominidae
   • monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
   • prosimian - primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits
   • lemur - large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails
   • tarsier - nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates
   belongs to: order primates, primates - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

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