"primal" meaning in English

See primal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɹaɪməl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-primal.wav
Rhymes: -aɪməl Etymology: From Medieval Latin primalis, from Latin primus (“first”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|primalis}} Medieval Latin primalis, {{der|en|la|primus|t=first}} Latin primus (“first”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} primal (not comparable)
  1. Being the first in time or in history. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (first in time or history): aboriginal, primaeval, primeval, primordial Translations (Being the first in time, or history): първичен (pǎrvičen) (Bulgarian), alkukantainen (Finnish), primeiro (Galician), taketake (Maori), перви́чный (pervíčnyj) (Russian), изнача́льный (iznačálʹnyj) (Russian), primer (Spanish), ilkel (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-primal-en-adj-7Ym25Jcb Disambiguation of 'first in time or history': 100 0 0 Disambiguation of 'Being the first in time, or history': 100 0 0
  2. Of greatest importance; primary. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (of greatest importance): primary Translations (Being of greatest importance; primary): основен (osnoven) (Bulgarian), най-важен (naj-važen) (Bulgarian), tärkein (Finnish), perus- (Finnish), elsődleges (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-primal-en-adj-VXBUAsHK Disambiguation of 'of greatest importance': 8 85 7 Disambiguation of 'Being of greatest importance; primary': 0 92 8
  3. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-primal-en-adj-~ts-OacE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: primal horde, primality, primally, primal scene, primal scream, primal therapist, primal therapy

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹaɪməl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-primal.wav Forms: primals [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪməl Etymology: From Medieval Latin primalis, from Latin primus (“first”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|primalis}} Medieval Latin primalis, {{der|en|la|primus|t=first}} Latin primus (“first”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} primal (plural primals)
  1. A primal cut (of meat).
    Sense id: en-primal-en-noun--Qp~c6Tj

Verb

IPA: /ˈpɹaɪməl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-primal.wav Forms: primals [present, singular, third-person], primaling [participle, present], primalling [participle, present], primaled [participle, past], primaled [past], primalled [participle, past], primalled [past]
Rhymes: -aɪməl Etymology: From Medieval Latin primalis, from Latin primus (“first”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|primalis}} Medieval Latin primalis, {{der|en|la|primus|t=first}} Latin primus (“first”) Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=primalled|pres_ptc2=primalling}} primal (third-person singular simple present primals, present participle primaling or primalling, simple past and past participle primaled or primalled)
  1. (intransitive) To take part in primal therapy. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-primal-en-verb-OqVx4hMb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 11 24 0 39 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 6 27 1 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 23 11 24 1 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 11 24 1 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 22 9 24 2 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 8 26 1 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 18 10 25 2 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 22 9 24 2 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 18 10 25 2 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 16 8 29 1 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 18 9 25 1 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 18 9 25 1 47

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1873, The Lancet 1873: Issue 2625, Elsevier Limited, page 882:",
          "text": "“We don’t know what life is. We do know what death is. It is change of habitat of ghost. I wish we had some sepate or house of bishops to tabulate these concepts. The law of togetherness and apartness is the most primal concept of life, Hence a crystal belongs as legitimately to the sphere of life as any seraph that blazes before the throne.” And so on for dreary pages.",
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          "ref": "1885, North American Review 1885-01: Volume 140, Issue 338, North American Review, pages 49–50:",
          "text": "But in the United States the whole movement has hardly reached the stage of toleration. It seems difficult for the great body of well-meaning, native-born citizens of mature vears, who are not of the wage-earning order, to understand how enormous have been the changes in the very frame-work of industrial life, and in the simplest and most primal facts affecting the social conditions in which the wage- workers, especially of the great cities and manufacturing sections of the land, now find themselves, year by year, more and more completely environed. The successful middle-aged American carries within his memory, as a rule, associations as to his own early struggles quite at variance with those that would now wait on him were he about to enter the arena of competition, armed only with such forcesas his natural physical nowers, partial training, and moderately developed mental capacities, might afford him at this time. Failing to put himself in the other man’s place, the matured man of business is almost invariably narrow and unjust in his estimate of the motives and aims of the labor-union organizer. There is also a justifiable feeling against the effort to make metes and bounds in the way of class distinctions.",
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          "ref": "1873, The Lancet 1873: Issue 2625, Elsevier Limited, page 882:",
          "text": "“We don’t know what life is. We do know what death is. It is change of habitat of ghost. I wish we had some sepate or house of bishops to tabulate these concepts. The law of togetherness and apartness is the most primal concept of life, Hence a crystal belongs as legitimately to the sphere of life as any seraph that blazes before the throne.” And so on for dreary pages.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, North American Review 1885-01: Volume 140, Issue 338, North American Review, pages 49–50:",
          "text": "But in the United States the whole movement has hardly reached the stage of toleration. It seems difficult for the great body of well-meaning, native-born citizens of mature vears, who are not of the wage-earning order, to understand how enormous have been the changes in the very frame-work of industrial life, and in the simplest and most primal facts affecting the social conditions in which the wage- workers, especially of the great cities and manufacturing sections of the land, now find themselves, year by year, more and more completely environed. The successful middle-aged American carries within his memory, as a rule, associations as to his own early struggles quite at variance with those that would now wait on him were he about to enter the arena of competition, armed only with such forcesas his natural physical nowers, partial training, and moderately developed mental capacities, might afford him at this time. Failing to put himself in the other man’s place, the matured man of business is almost invariably narrow and unjust in his estimate of the motives and aims of the labor-union organizer. There is also a justifiable feeling against the effort to make metes and bounds in the way of class distinctions.",
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        "Of greatest importance; primary."
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        "Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts."
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        "(meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts."
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      "sense": "Being the first in time, or history",
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      "sense": "Being the first in time, or history",
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      "sense": "Being of greatest importance; primary",
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Being of greatest importance; primary",
      "word": "elsődleges"
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          "ref": "1979, The Journal of Orgonomy, volume 13, number 1, page 108:",
          "text": "One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.",
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          "ref": "1982, Lawrence Edwin Abt, Irving R. Stuart, The Newer Therapies: A Sourcebook, page 369:",
          "text": "Primaling on the infant level seems so genuinely babyish that the unsophisticated observer may mistake it for psychotic behavior.",
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        "To take part in primal therapy."
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        "(intransitive) To take part in primal therapy."
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