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† primigenious, a. Obs.|praɪmɪˈdʒiːnɪəs|
Also erron. primogenious, -eous.
[f. L. prīmigeni-us (see primigenial) + -ous. Often erroneously primogenious (-eous): see above.]
= primigenial.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy i. xxv. 134 The Primigenious [Wks. 1628 primogenious] Antiquitie (which proceeded from the ancient of Dayes). a1646J. Gregory Assyrian Mon. Posthuma (1650) 211 The greatest Alchimist in Historie can scarce extract one dram of the pure and primigenious metal. 1693J. Beaumont On Burnet's Th. Earth i. 68 In the primigenious Mass the Earth must have held the lower place.
β1628[see 1620 above]. 1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. (1678) ix. ix. 221 The inbred and primogenious humidity of the Nerves is wasted. 1712H. More's Antid. Ath. ii. ix. §10 Schol. 157 This he determines primogenious moisture. 1765Museum Rust. IV. ii. 7 In poor lands it opposes the most active primogeneous agents. 1799Trans. Soc. Arts XVII. 268 Allow me to call the first tree primogeneous or stock.
Hence primiˈgeniousness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Primigeniousness, originalness, the being the first of the kind. |