SYN: Paramount, supreme, primary, chief, certain, efficacious, principal, predominant, superior, imperial, regal.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Causa ei paupertatis, philosophia, sicut plerisque probitas fuit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

There is extant an oration of Cicero entitled Pro P. Sestio, in defence of Publius, who was tried in the year after Cicero’s return on a charge of raising a tumult (de vi) at the popular meeting in which Cicero’s recall was proposed.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Because the country exports primary products such as oil, bananas, and shrimp, fluctuations in world market prices can have a substantial domestic impact.
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Estque hæc particula, velut filius emancipatus seorsumquc collocatus, et principium per se vivens; unde postea, membrorum ordo describitur; et quæcunque ad absolvendum animal pertinent, disponuntur.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Compulsory education prevails; primary schools, 6,617; 17 public high schools, 1 university; total number of students, 284,035.
— from Alden's Handy Atlas of the World Including One Hundred and Thirty-eight Colored Maps, Diagrams, Tables, Etc. by John B. (John Berry) Alden

(follow): (1) sequel, sequence, consequence, subsequent, consecutive, execute, prosecute, persecute, sue, ensue, suitor, suitable, pursuit, rescue, second; (2) obsequies, obsequious, sequester, inconsequential, non sequitur, executor, suite.
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor