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单词 primigenial
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primigenialadj.

Brit. /ˌprʌɪmᵻˈdʒiːnɪəl/, U.S. /ˌpraɪməˈdʒinjəl/, /ˌpraɪməˈdʒiniəl/
Forms: 1600s primigeniall, 1600s– primigenial. See also primogenial adj.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin prīmigenius , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin prīmigenius first-born, original, primitive (see primigenious adj.) + -al suffix1. In sense 2 after scientific Latin primigenius, specific name, in e.g. Bos primigenius the aurochs (so called as being the ancestor of domestic cattle). Compare later primogenial adj., and also later primigene adj., primigenie adj., primigenious adj.
1. That is generated or produced first; belonging to the earliest stage of existence; original, primitive, primary.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > primitive or early
earlyOE
formerc1374
primordiala1398
primec1429
primer1448
primitivea1475
pristinate1531
prisk1533
pristine1534
primordiate1599
primigenial1602
primitial1602
primigenie1615
primigenious1620
primigene1623
primogenious1625
primogeniala1631
primevea1640
primogenian1650
pristinary1652
primeval1653
primevous1656
protogeneous1660
primigenous1677
primo-primitive1678
antediluvian1705
priscal1831
archaic1833
primigenian1847
Palaeozoic1863
priscan1870
aboriginary1993
1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 1 I am verie desirous..to know the first and primigeniall existence of Tythes.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 48 I call these two Elements Primigeniall, or first-born, in respect of the Earth.
1672 E. Worsley Reason & Relig. 579 It is the first Act of faith we elicite, Or, that Primigenial Assent which connaturally arises from God's own voice.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 343 The two Causes of the Pulse, the Spirits from the primigenial Heat, or the Spirits of the radical Moisture.
1741 E. W. Paraphrase Hundred & Fourth Psalm vi. 8 At the primigenial Call Order from dark Confusion sprung.
1800 R. Heron Elem. Chem. ix. ii. 423 The continual effort of matter to diffuse itself into its primigenial atoms, throughout the vacuity of space,—opposes—to that central gravitation,—a centrifugal motion.
1907 C. Snyder World Machine 63 The parentage of ideas is as a rule obscure. Rarely may we trace their primigenial forms.
1973 C. L. Boiles & F. Horcasitas tr. M. Léon-Portillo Time & reality in Thought of Maya iv. 73 At the end, the primigenial ceibas are reborn in the five regions of the earth.
1996 Lat. Amer. Perspectives 23 130 Decolonization marked the birth of the Third World—its primigenial and legitimating act—at least as it was perceived by its own members.
2. Zoology. Designating or relating to a species or variety regarded as an evolutionary ancestor of a related modern form.
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the world > life > biology > organism > proto-organism > [adjective]
monad1826
primigenian1847
primogenial1851
primigenal1860
primigenial1868
protistic1869
cryptobiotic1884
primigene1884
1868 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. III. xxxv. 618 This is seen in the Musk-bubale, and was the case with the primigenial Elephant and Rhinoceros.
1895 Science 8 Nov. 623/1 Among the other papers of interest is an illustrated article by Mr. H. P. F. Marriott, entitled ‘Primigenial Skeletons, the Flood and the Glacial Period.’
1954 Philos. Sci. 21 260 Primigenial man was concerned with others like himself as soon as, or before, he was concerned with inanimate objects.
1994 Aquaculture 121 278 It is suspected that steelhead genes may have inadvertently become incorporated into this primigenial trout strain.

Derivatives

primigenialness n. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (ed. 2) Primigenialness, originalness, the being the first of the kind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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