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‖ prima materia|ˈpraɪmə məˈtɪərɪə|
[L., = first matter. Cf. Gr. ἡ πρώτη ὕλη.]
= materia prima.
1906W. B. Yeats Poems, 1899–1905 p. xii, I know I have been busy with the Great Work, no lesser thing than that, although it may be the Athanor has burned too fiercely, or too faintly and fitfully, or that the prima materia has been ill-chosen. 1919D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 232 From the conjunction of fire and water within the living plasm arose the first matter, the Prima Materia of a living body, which, in its dead state, is the alchemistic Earth. 1954R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Coll. Wks. XVI. ii. iii. 189 The refining of the prima materia, the unconscious content, demands endless patience, perseverance..and ability on the part of the doctor. 1969K. Minogue in Ionescu & Gellner Populism 209 Nationalism has supplied them with a vocabulary suitable to their self-assertion expressing their claim to be unique and valuable, rather than simply indistinguishable prima materia fit for the inevitable process of industrialization. |