| 单词 | primevally |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspriˈmevally priˈmevally adv. in a primeval manner; (also) in the first age of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > at first, originally, or primitively principally1389 forthmostc1450 primarily1601 primordially1603 primitively1607 originarily1610 fontallya1617 originallya1620 primevallya1711 at or after the first brush1815 archetypally1854 a1711 T. Ken Urania in Wks. (1721) IV. 475 Sweet Poetry..From God primevally it streams. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xlvi. 317 With regard to the æra of the commencement of the race of mankind, or how this globe primevally was peopled, are points which I must confess are to me inscrutable. 1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley iii How gloriously, how primevally beautiful, is just this one favoured spot! 1879 Littell's Living Age 26 July 211/1 Miracles were preordained, and being primevally existent, at whatever time they were wrought, nature was not disturbed by them. 1929 A. B. E. Cator in Hoghunters' Ann. 52 Man is primævally a killer; by the word man I mean a real man, not the long haired poodle faking, over dressed idiot, all too common at home in these post-war days. 2005 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 3 May e2 His job was to make his instrument squeal, howl and moan primevally. < as lemmas |
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