This grotesque outcome follows naturally from the primordial lie.
There's something primordial about eating meat off the bone.
The proper way to show it hurts is with a loud primordial grunt.
If so, this primordial instinct joins a lengthening list of maladaptations to modern life.
But their countries have always been linked by far more primordial forces.
The walls of the basement playroom reverberate with the sounds of pounding, primordial yells and groans spiraling upstairs.
Analysis of the resulting cloud of debris will provide information about conditions in the primordial solar system.
They are seeking ultimately to reconstruct the primordial language, the mother tongue of all humans.
They would do this by “stealing” a property called lepton number from the primordial cosmic soup.
Legions of modern artists have been attracted to things prehistoric, archaic and primordial.
British Dictionary definitions for primordial
primordial
/praɪˈmɔːdɪəl/
adjective
1.
existing at or from the beginning; earliest; primeval
2.
constituting an origin; fundamental
3.
(biology) of or relating to an early stage of development: primordial germ cells
noun
4.
an elementary or basic principle
Derived Forms
primordiality, noun primordially, adverb
Word Origin
C14: from Late Latin prīmōrdiālis original, from Latin prīmus first + ōrdīrī to begin
Word Origin and History for primordial
adj.
late 14c., from Late Latin primordialis "first of all, original," from Latin primordium "a beginning, the beginning, origin, commencement," from primus "first" (see prime (adj.)) + stem of ordiri "to begin" (see order (n.)). Related: Primordially.
primordial in Medicine
primordial pri·mor·di·al (prī-môr'dē-əl) adj.
Being or happening first in sequence of time; primary; original.
Belonging to or characteristic of the earliest stage of development of an organism or a part.