primigenous
English
Alternative forms
- primigenious
Etymology
Latin primigenus, primigenius. See primogeniture.
Adjective
primigenous (not comparable)
- First formed or generated; original; primigenial.
- 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy
- The first is true: all under the first is obnoxious to error; the puisne posthumous antiquity hath been a refuge for falsehood: the primigenous antiquity, which proceeded from the Ancient of Days, is certain.
- 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy