(a.) First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, outcomes were more positive for only children, firstborns, and children from two-child families than for all other comparison groups.
(2) Strong preferences for the firstborn to be male and for an alternation of sexes were also indicated.
(3) Results indicated that the measures of the home environment (including Caldwell's Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment [HOME] inventory) were not correlated with the measures of cognitive competence (Bayley Mental Development Index [MDI], Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development) except among firstborns.
(4) The clinical triad of a firstborn delivered vaginally to a young (teenage) mother has been previously noted among juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (JO-RRP) patients.
(5) The neonatal and infant mortality rates of firstborn are probably higher than those of later sibs (in Crulai and Tourouvre).
(6) In contrast with other reports, an excess of leukemia, primarily ANLL, occurred among second or later-born rather than firstborn children.
(7) This study examines differences between 80 firstborn and second-born twin pairs with respect to Apgar score, umbilical venous and arterial blood gas, and acid-base data.
(8) The risk of a firstborn with an autism spectrum disorder triples after a mother turns 35 and a father reaches 40.
(9) Compared with the living controls, the SIDS mothers had attended less prenatal examinations, more often delivered their babies at home; the SIDS parents were younger, and yet the SIDS infants were less often firstborns.
(10) Statistically significant differences favoring twin A, the firstborn, were found in 1-minute Apgar score, umbilical venous pH, PO2, and PCO2, and umbilical arterial PO2.
(11) In the largest study of its kind, researchers have shown that the risk of autism increases for firstborn children and children of older parents.
(12) Conflicting results concerning the affiliative personality of firstborns and later borns can be explained by considering the importance of the birth of a sibling and the age spacing between the siblings.
(13) Other theories include the firstborn's exposure to toxins.
(14) "It is interesting that we observe a distinct firstborn advantage in education, even though parents in modern society are more likely to be egalitarian in the way they treat their children."
(15) In addition to possible differences in methodology, discrepancies between the present findings and those of earlier studies may reflect a decline over the past 20 years in the percentage of male obsessive compulsives that were either firstborn or only children.
(16) While the Japanese had lower rates of infant deaths and deaths from perinatal conditions for firstborn infants, they had higher rates of sudden infant death syndrome, as did Chinese females.
(17) It is clear that we need to rethink law, entitlements and institutions around how we regulate information, without consenting to untold pages of unread, non-negotiable, we’ll-take-everything-but-your-firstborn-child terms and conditions.
(18) Next in line for success come firstborn boys – all 12 men to have walked on the moon were either eldest or only children.
(19) The firstborn was diagnosed with NEC in 19 (45%) of the cases, with the disorder occurring in the secondborn in 23 cases (55%).
(20) Different types of interaction between the mothers and their younger infants were related to attention-seeking behavior in the firstborn male and female siblings.
Primogeniture
Definition:
(a.) The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.
(a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) As late as 2012, the gracious address contained flecks of modernising reform – the (largely delivered) move to abolish male primogeniture in the monarchy and the (entirely aborted) effort at electing the Lords.
(2) There is a broad consensus for abolishing male primogeniture in the Spanish royal family, but that requires going through the complex process of changing the constitution.
(3) The rebels see the fact that male primogeniture survives in the royal family, even though Juan Carlos's oldest child is female, as one reason for restricting the new inheritance law.
(4) Primogeniture was associated with male infants but not female infants; some factor related to primogeniture, such as breast-feeding, may be etiologically important.
(5) In the 61 infants with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, the incidence of three factors (male sex, primogeniture and feeding with artificial milk) was significantly higher than that in the controls.
(6) Their distribution shows a bias towards higher social classes, breast feeding, and primogeniture.
(7) General factors such as female sex and joint laxity imply an increased risk for being missed in the screening, whereas mechanical factors such as breech presentation and the primogeniture effect likely facilitate an early diagnosis in the screening.
(8) At the root of the rebels' decision to abandon the governing body lies a 2006 law that abolished male primogeniture.
(9) As the duchess spent a second day in hospital, receiving treatment for hyperemesis gravidarum, an extremely acute form of morning sickness, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, announced all Commonwealth realms had now given speedy final consent for the government to press ahead with legislation abolishing male primogeniture.
(10) The law was introduced with cross-party approval after Spain's highest courts ruled against 20 women who had demanded that male primogeniture rules for noble titles be struck down for contravening equality laws.
(11) The primogeniture law for the British monarchy was abolished in 2013 before the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child, Prince George.
(12) It is the beginning of a new era in my life and I look forward to the challenges that lie ahead.” Though the 7th Duke of Westminster has two older sisters, he inherits the title and estate, which includes 190 acres in Belgravia and thousands of acres in Scotland and Spain, through the rule of primogeniture, which puts male children ahead of female siblings irrespective of age.
(13) Announcing the proposed abolition of an ancient rules of primogeniture in October 2011, Cameron said the 16 Commonwealth countries where the Queen is head of state had agreed to give female royals the same rights of succession as their brothers.
(14) An hour later, I feared for a moment as if a Miliscrap might break out – in front of a packed hall – as David had to sit and listen to Ed subtly refine his lines on Trident and Iraq, in a manner that tickled Labour tummies so effectively it could upset the rule of primogeniture.
(15) The reforms will end the rule of male primogeniture in the royal line of succession and lift the ban on anyone in the line of succession marrying a Catholic.
(16) Its inextricable connection to the archaic principle of primogeniture means that the next three heads of state will be stolidly monocultural: white, male and Anglican.
(17) The count complained that the Deputation of the Grandees, which unites 900 of the country's 2,300 titled aristocrats and acts as a consultant body to the interior ministry, has done nothing to defend inheritance by primogeniture laid down in the individual charters for each title.
(18) Further study should be directed toward environmental factors associated with primogeniture.