primordial

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRIMOR'DIAL, adjective [Latin primordialis, primordium; primus, first, and ordo, order.] First in order; original; existing from the beginning. PRIMOR'DIAL, noun Origin; first principle or element.
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