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/prɪmˈɔrdiəl/ /praɪmˈɔrdiəl/ Listen

adjective

Primordial adj.

First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition. "The primordial facts of our intelligent nature."

(Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.

(Biol.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.

Primordial utricle (Bot.), the interior lining of a young vegetable cell.

noun

Primordial n. A first principle or element.

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Etymology of 'Primordial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Primordial" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not take an active part in the affairs of the lodges or in human affairs, but were exclusively occupied with the mystical science of the order: with questions of the threefold designation of God, the three primordial elements—sulphur, mercury, and salt—or the meaning of the square and all the various figures of the temple of Solomon. Pierre respected this class of Brothers to which the elder ones chiefly belonged, including, Pierre thought, ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... the series of good things, he probably thought of it only in opposition to the Manifold, and wished to point out that it is from the One that the Good is to be derived. He appears, however, (see De Nat. Deor. i. 13,) to have attributed vital activity to the primordial unity, ...

— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

... all Thales thought that water was the primordial substance of all things. Heraclitus of Ephesus, surnamed by the Greeks [Greek: skoteinos] on account of the obscurity of his writings, thought that it was fire. Democritus and his follower Epicurus thought ...

— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

... had just discussed had been uncommon in all respects; Maitland's scheme of courses and his specification as to details had roused the admiration of the Primordial's chef and put him on his mettle. He had outdone himself in his efforts to do justice to Mr. Maitland's genius; and the Primordial in its deadly conservatism remains to this day one of the very few places in New York where good, sound ...

— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance

... its essence unknowable, is "the fountain-head of all beings, and the norm of all actions. But it is not only the formative principle of the universe; it also seems to be primordial matter: chaotic in its composition, born prior to Heaven and earth, noiseless, formless, standing alone in its solitude, and not changing, universal in its activity, and unrelaxing, without being ...

— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner

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