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Neurilemma :: Neurilemma (n.) The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

Primity :: Primity (n.) Quality of being first; primitiveness.

Ranter :: Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt..

Primitiveness :: Primitiveness (n.) The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

Pristinate :: Pristinate (a.) Pristine; primitive.

Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc..

Hetarism :: Hetarism (n.) A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common..

Primitively :: Primitively (adv.) According to the original rule or ancient practice; in the ancient style.

Decrement :: Decrement (n.) A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced..

Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress..

Prime :: Prime (a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.

Desiderative :: Desiderative (n.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb..

Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning..

Catechumen :: Catechumen (L. catechunenus, Gr. / instructed, from /. See) One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church..

Primitively :: Primitively (adv.) Primarily; not derivatively.

Ectental :: Ectental (a.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the ectental line or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum..

Aboriginal :: Aboriginal (a.) First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America..

Radix :: Radix (n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon..

Pristine :: Pristine (a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor..

Archenteron :: Archenteron (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

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