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primogenial - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
primigenial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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adjective original ; primary ; elemental .
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He mowed the back lawn, cleaned the kitty litter and the kitchen (tasks unrelated except for their primogenial letters), and totally straightened up the office.
tired pbray 2006
Anaximander affirms that the sea is the remainder of the primogenial humidity, the greatest part of which being dried up by the fire, the influence of the great heat altered its quality.
Essays and Miscellanies 2004
This primogenial fluid is vague and diffuse, and the human fluid a part of it.
Lunheng 1962
Before its birth the - soul forms part of the primogenial fluid, which is unconscious.
Lunheng 1962
Before they are born, they form part of the primogenial fluid, and when they die, they revert to it.
Lunheng 1962
It is a formless mass like the yolk of an egg, before it is hatched, showing in this respect the nature of the primogenial vapours, from which it has been derived (p. 199).
Lunheng 1962
As despite all "progress of science," incubators and other labor-saving machinery, people still persist in entering the world in the primogenial way, the relation of the sexes is of quite immeasurable importance, and knowledge thereof should not be monopolized by the narrow circle who read medical magazines.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898
Page view page image: carry down their traditions, it can not be reasonably expected, that they should still retain the identical names of their primogenial tribes: their main customs corresponding with those of the Israelites, sufficiently clear the subject.
Chronicles of border warfare, or, A history of the settlement by the whites, of north-western Virginia, and of the Indian wars and massacres in that section of the state 1895
Page xviii primogenial infant, and for which she gave me much credit and a handsome reward.
The poetical works of George M. Horton : the colored bard of North Carolina : to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself, 1880
It has been discovered by Sir Isaac Newton, that the distinct and primogenial colours are only seven; but every eye can witness, that from various mixtures, in various proportions, infinite diversifications of tints may be produced.
The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV 1751
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