noun
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A primal cut (of meat).
verb
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To take part in primal therapy.
adjective
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Being the first in time or in history.
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primal man
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Of greatest importance; primary.
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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.
Examples of primal in a Sentence
There was something primal in his low growl that made her body boil.
Maybe it was a primal need to replicate.
All conscience effort to think fled and was replaced by a new instinct, the primal need to feed.
A cold shiver went down his spine just thinking about it; a primal fear of dark and dank places.
In this way we, as it were, bring the causal or primal term and its remotest dependent immediately together, and raise a derivative knowledge into one which is primary and intuitive.
Hibil's contest with darkness has its prototype in Marduk's battle with chaos, the dragon Tiamat, which (another striking parallel) partially swallows Marduk, just as is related of Hibil and the Manichaean primal man.
There is nothing primal about the way we desire each other, sweetheart.
His chief advance upon the doctrines of Anaximenes is that he asserted air, the primal force, to be possessed of intelligence- "the air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed.
Primal Life, who is properly speaking the Mandaean god, has the same predicates as the primal spirit, and every prayer, as well as every section of the sacred books, begins by invoking him.
The Primal Light unfolds himself by five great branches, viz.
Another characteristic figure of Gnosticism is that of the Primal Man (rrpWTos ccvOpcorros).
But how to explain the combination of the figure of the sun-god with that of the Primal Man is an unsolved riddle.
Men are the result of a primal war in heaven, when hosts of angels incited by Satan or Lucifer to revolt were driven out, and were imprisoned in terrestrial bodies created for them by the adversary.
This perception combines, as understanding, with the primal yearning, which becomes thereby free creative will, and works formatively in the originally lawless nature or ground.
The successors of Thales were Anaximander and Anaximenes, who also sought for a primal substance of things.
It was a truth acknowledged by the primal instinct drawn to the scent of his blood and invigorated by his touch.
Here the only road signs are your primal instincts.
As a Wookie, the sound of Chewbacca's language is much more primal.
This figure of the Primal Man can particularly be compared with that of the Gnostic Sophia.
And as he has raised himself again out of the material world, or has been set free by higher powers, so shall also the members of the Primal Man, the portions of light still imprisoned in matter, be set free.
Over one-hundred versions of Crue songs are tabbed out here including Afraid, Bad Boy Boogie, If I Die Tomorrow, Primal Scream, Saints of Los Angeles, Wild Side and more.
Because the nature of the island is what Jack experiences, he experiences EVERYTHING the island has and is exposed to some strange experiment that gives him primal skills.
Games such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage and many more are members of this well-populated sub-genre.
A filet mignon is a cut of meat from the tenderloin primal of a cow.
Some would say that it is more primal than the arts, as reflected in the mating "dances" of many animals.
The sense of smell is our most primal sense.
There's just something about those bold black swishes and slashes that seems to speak to us deep down inside on an almost primal level.
And although acts like Happy Mondays and Primal Scream have in many ways emulated that sound and that carefree ethic, no one has ever really done it like them since.
Fantasy art demons appeal to more basic, primal instincts.
The question of the derivation of the myth of the Primal Man is still one of the unsolved problems of religious history.
With all his efforts, Schelling does not succeed in bringing his conceptions of nature and spirit into any vital connexion with the primal identity, the absolute indifference of reason.
Atkinson (author of Primal Law) told him that he had met and caressed the girl of his heart in the forest, that she had vanished and must have been a fairy.
The God of light, with his syzygy, " the spirit of his right hand," now begot the primal man, and sent him, equipped with the five pure elements, to fight against Satan.
But the latter proved himself the stronger, and the primal man was for a moment vanquished.
It only remained now for the primal man to descend into the abyss and prevent the further increase of the generations of darkness by cutting off their roots; but he could not immediately separate again the elements that had once mingled.
It possesses in the sun and moon, which are in their nature almost quite pure, large reservoirs, in which the portions of light that have been rescued are stored up. In the sun dwells the primal man himself, as well as the glorious spirits which carry on the work of redemption; in the moon the mother of life is enthroned.
According to the teaching of some Manichaeans, it was the primal man who disseminated the true gnosis in the character of Christ.
The unit of Icelandic politics was the homestead with its franklin-owner (buendi) its primal organization the hundredmoot (thing), its tie the gooorc5(godar) or chieftainship. The chief who had led a band of kinsmen and dependants to the new land, taken a " claim " there, and parcelled it out among them, naturally became their leader, presiding as priest at the temple feasts and sacrifices of heathen times, acting as speaker of their moot, and as their representative towards the neighbouring chiefs.
The teleology of nature is thus made to rest on a transcendental theology, which takes the ideal of supreme ontological perfection as a principle of systematic unity, a principle which connects all things according to universal and necessary natural laws, since they all have their origin in the absolute necessity of a single primal being" (p. 538).
Moments of primal screaming occasionally burst through in this caged beast of a song.
Never let anyone tell you Primal Scream ain't show biz.
Nothing in holy scripture, the catholic creeds, or our historic formularies makes it necessary to go against this primal witness.
Kate Moss has recorded a duet with Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie.
Others managed to balance the complex truth of human frailty with a primal joy in the moment.
Freud thought that all humanity had inherited this guilt from the primal crime, so even now we have mixed feelings about God.
Now supporting Primal Scream, and set to be absolutely massive.
Bass is primal, and it reminds me of a large posterior - but both spirituality and sexuality originate higher up in the body.
He'll find something primal, like some primal fear.
I had a deep, almost primal urge to corpse Kevin Richmond.
It feels primal - it feels like that thing that somebody might dig up ten years later and think ' What is this?