Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Primeval.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Primeval.

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  • adjective obsolete primeval

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  • August 25, 2007 at 02: 37 PM gentiopicrin besing cedre trunkwork sloomy autem primevous lymphadenia

    A Final Post: An Explanation for the Past Two Weeks 2007

  • It was held by even the sagacious Socrates, that men cannot arrive at any certainty in questions respecting the form or motion of the earth, or the mechanism of the heavens; and so he set himself to elucidate what he deemed much simpler matters, -- to prove, for instance, as we find in the Phedon, that human souls existed ere they came to inhabit their mortal bodies, and retained faint recollections of great misfortunes that had overtaken them ere their embodiment as men, and of sufferings to which they had been subjected in a primevous state.

    The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

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