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Another word for primordial

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Adjective

  1. Preceding all others in time

      1. From which others are derived; fundamental; basic
      2. Being the most desired or suitable example of something:
      3. First or highest in rank or importance; main:
      1. Of or in the first stage of a sequence; elementary
      2. Referring to present or future time. Used as a collective designation for various present and future verb tenses in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.
      3. First or highest in rank or importance; principal.
      1. Leading the way; trailblazing:
      2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers:
      3. Being one of the first of its kind
      1. Capable of or given to inventing or creating something new, or thinking or acting in an independent, individual, fresh way
      2. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
      3. Having to do with an origin; first; earliest
      1. Of, characteristic of, or suitable for a maiden
      2. Never having won a race
      3. First or earliest; inaugural
      1. Having to do with, indicating, or occurring at the beginning
      2. Of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first:
      3. Designating the first letter or letters of a word.
      1. Happening or acting before all others; earliest
      2. Corresponding in order to the number one.
      3. Ranking above all others, as in importance or quality; foremost:
    See also:

    start

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Sentence Examples

  • The primordial air is conceived as animated.

  • A bill of rights, defining the so-called primordial rights of the citizens to sectirity of life, liberty and property; A declaration and enactment of the frame of state government, i.e.

  • Another still later myth, which occurs in the epic poems, makes Brahma be born from a lotus which grew out of the navel of the god Vishnu whilst floating on the primordial waters.

  • Now the wish to become manifest and known, and hence the idea of creation, is co-eternal with the inscrutable Deity, and the first manifestation of this primordial will is called the first Sephirah or emanation.

  • The notion that all the kinds of animals and plants may have come into existence by the growth and modification of primordial germs is as old as speculative thought; but the modern scientific form of the doctrine can be traced historically to the influence of several converging lines of philosophical speculation and of physical observation, none of which go further back than the 17th century.

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