Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being of the first production; primitive; original.
- Pertaining to the primitiæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Being of the first production; primitive; original.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Being of the first production;
primitive ;original .
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Examples
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For what else could be meant by that sweet perfume but the odor of his holy and innocent conversation, or the incense of their sacrifices and prayers, or the primitial fruits of his happy soul, which was now flown up to the holy mountain of eternal glory, there enjoying the odoriferous and never-fading delights of Paradise?
Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861
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The most unevenly printed, and therefore, I suppose, the primitial gem, is the _Tractatus de mendicitate spirituali_, in which not only rubiform capitals, but whole words, have been inserted by a chirographer.
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