Definition of primitive

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Primitive (n.) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.

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Radically :: Radically (adv.) Without derivation; primitively; essentially.
Cingalese :: Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitant.
Oscan :: Oscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy..
Archi- :: Archi- () A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing..
Etymologize :: Etymologize (v. t.) To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word..
Primitive :: Primitive (n.) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
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..
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Proto- :: Proto- () A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan..
Primity :: Primity (n.) Quality of being first; primitiveness.
Primitively :: Primitively (adv.) Primarily; not derivatively.
Artotyrite :: Artotyrite (n.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.].
Whitsunday :: Whitsunday (n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments..
Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress..
Aboriginal :: Aboriginal (a.) First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America..
Protovertebra :: Protovertebra (n.) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm..
Agape :: Agape (n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion..
Diminutive :: Diminutive (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin..
Nephridium :: Nephridium (n.) A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.
Archiblastula :: Archiblastula (n.) A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula..
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