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Definition of Primal

1. Adjective. Serving as an essential component. "Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"

2. Adjective. Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state. "Primordial forms of life"

Definition of Primal

1. a. First; primary; original; chief.

Definition of Primal

1. Adjective. Being the first in time, or history. ¹

2. Adjective. Being of greatest importance; primary. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Primal

1. being at the beginning or foundation [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Primal

prima ballerina prima ballerinas prima donna prima donnas prima facie primacies primacy primacy effect primacy effects primadonna

primadonnas primae donnae primaeval primage primages primal (current term) primal cut primal horde primal hordes primal scene

primal scream primal screams primal therapy primalities primality primally primaquine primaries primarily primariness

Literary usage of Primal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. God in History: Or, The Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1868)
"On this Tshu-hi remarks:— Lao-tse therefore does not regard the primal Force ... Now, for his own part Tshu-hi endeavours to raise the primal Force into the ..."

2. Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Himalayan Academy, Master Subramuniya (2003)
"So talked of is He that His name is on the lips of everyone—for He is the primal sound. Being the first and perfect form, God Siva in this third perfection ..."

3. Adaptive Statistical Procedures and Related Topics: Proceedings of a by Herbert Robbins, John Van Ryzin (1986)
"The primal State model avoids these limitations . The basic idea is that for each period, the true defect rate does not change with probability (1-P); ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"His first serious effort was ' Le Prime Storie ' (The primal Histories), ... Like the ' primal Histories,' this poem is largely contemplative and ..."

5. History of Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1909)
"The conception of fire as the primal principle has its germ in the fire- or sun-worship of the Chaldeans, Scythians, ! Persians, Parsees, and Hindus, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"With Heraclitus evolution meant the return of all things into the primal principle followed by a new world- development; with Hegel it was an eternal ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This figure of the primal Man can particularly be compared with that of the Gnostic Sophia. Wherever this figure has not become quite obscure, it represents ..."

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