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Primal   /prˈaɪməl/   Listen
Primal

adjective
1.
Serving as an essential component.  Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, key.  "The central cause of the problem" , "An example that was fundamental to the argument" , "Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
2.
Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.  Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primeval, primordial.  "Primal eras before the appearance of life on earth" , "The forest primeval" , "Primordial matter" , "Primordial forms of life"






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... ed., 1889, pp. 21, 360, 795). As the simpler occurrences of inorganic nature and the more complicated phenomena of organic life are alike reducible to the same natural forces, and as, further, these in their turn have their common foundation in a simple primal principle pervading infinite space, we can regard this last (the cosmic ether) as all-comprehending divinity, and upon this found the thesis: "Belief in God is reconcilable with science." In this pantheistic view, and also in his criticism of a one-sided materialism, I entirely agree ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel

... called, Must be called back to the primal Centre. Let no soul tremble or be appalled, For the heart of the Maker is where we enter - Is where we enter to gain new force Before we are sent on ...
— Hello, Boys! • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... this grave hour—God help keep the President! To him all Lincoln's tenderness be lent, The grave, sweet nature of the man that saw Most power in peace and let no claptrap awe His high-poised duty from its primal plan Of rule supreme for the whole good ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

... offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,— A brother's murder!—Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself ...
— Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... very good, even though it seemed sometimes to that same youthfulness a strange and tragic thing that it should be all she wanted. The mysterious, fathomless depression of youth, as of something akin to unknown primal depths of loneliness, sometimes laid its chill hand on her heart; but when Dosia "said her prayers," she got, child-fashion, very near to a Some One who brought her an intimate tender comfort ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various


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