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primigenial, a. Now rare.|praɪmɪˈdʒiːnɪəl|
Also erron. primogenial, -geneal.
[f. L. prīmigeni-us, also prīmigen-us first of its kind, original (f. prīmi-, comb. form of prīm-us first + genus kind, or gen-, stem of gignĕre to beget, produce) + -al1. Often erroneously spelt primogenial (-geneal), by confusion with derivatives of L. primo genitus.]
†1. First generated or produced; earliest formed; belonging to the earliest stage of existence of anything; original, primitive, primary. Obs.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 1, I am verie desirous..to know the first and primigeniall existence of Tythes. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 48, I call these two Elements Primigeniall, or first-born, in respect of the Earth. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 343 The two Causes of the Pulse, the Spirits from the primigenial Heat, or the Spirits of the radical Moisture.
β1627Hakewill Apol. i. i. 5 The radicall moisture, and primogeniall heat naturally ingrafted in us wastes alwayes by degrees. 1680Boyle Scept. Chem. ii. 162 It will follow that Salt and Sulphur are not Primogeneal Bodies. 1753Johnson Adventurer No. 95 ⁋13 It has been discovered by Sir Isaac Newton, that the distinct and primogenial colours are only seven. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 264 The primogenial Phrygians call me [Cybele] Pessinuntica.
2. Zool. Applied to species belonging to a primitive type (rendering the specific name primigenius, as in Bos primigenius, Elephas primigenius).
1868Owen Vertebr. Anim. III. xxxv. 618 This is seen in the Musk-bubale, and was the case with the primigenial Elephant and Rhinoceros.
β1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. vi. 153 The Primogenial or slender-legged horses. 1867W. T. Thornton in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 593 Neither could Cain do the like with respect to a primogenial zebra which his father fancied as much as himself.
Hence † primiˈgenialness.
1731Bailey vol. II, Primigenialness, Primigeniousness. |