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primitively, adv.|ˈprɪmɪtɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. adj. + -ly2.]
In the primitive way, manner, or order.
1. In the earliest age or time; at the beginning; anciently; originally in time, at first.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 580 That rare concord and agreement which was primitively ordained by God to be betwixt man and beast. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 201 So possibly might the Sheep of Peru,..be primitively Sheep, but differenced by their long abode..in Peru. 1704in Collier Dissuasive fr. Play Ho. 30 Whether this Primitive Church of his was primitively pure, or originally Profane. 1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 126 A beam of light which was primitively white..becomes sensibly red.
2. Originally, as opposed to derivatively, or as giving origin to something else; radically, fundamentally; primarily.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 59 This direction proceeds not primitively from themselves, but is derivative and contracted from the magneticall effluxions of the earth. 1827Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 61 This is the Absolute the Primitively True.
b. Originally; in origin or derivation.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi. (Arb.) 121 One other pretie conceit..also borrowed primitiuely of the Poet, or courtly maker. 1659T. Philipot Vill. Cant. 227 The Medway, from whence it [Maidstone] primitively borrowed its Name. 1869Huxley Phys. xii. (ed. 3) 314 That inverted portion of the integument, from which the whole anterior character of the eye and the lens are primitively formed.
3. In a primitive style; with the purity, simplicity, or rudeness of early times.
1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 106 Ordinances, which are purely and primitively administred there. a1716South Serm. (1717) VI. 129 The purest, and most primitively ordered Church in the world. 1902Words Eyewitness 72 The most primitively manly race on earth. Mod. The concern was very primitively put together. |