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priˈmordially, adv.
[f. primordial a. + -ly2.]
In a primordial way. a. At or from the very beginning; in the earliest stage; at first, originally, primitively. b. In relation to the beginning or starting-point; radically, fundamentally.
1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. iii. xviii. 120 Everything which I, or any intelligence, can apprehend, is steeped primordially in me. 1871Darwin Desc. Man viii. (1874) 228 We have no grounds for supposing that male bees primordially collected pollen. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xxxvii. 324 His dogma of the immutability of primordially created species. |