primogenial

The primogenial origin may be hidden in obscurity, but the German people have absorbed Gauls, Serbs, Poles, Wends, and a medley of Slav and Celtic races which confound all claims to racial purity.

When we consider that these savages have been upwards of twenty centuries without the aid of letters to 18 carry down their traditions, it can not be reasonably expected, that they should still retain the identical names of their primogenial tribes: their main customs corresponding with those of the Israelites, sufficiently clear the subject.

Antonyms: flaccid, soft, vacillating, irresolute, lax, yielding, facile, inconstant. first, a. earliest; foremost, leading, chief, premier; primary, primal, primordial, primitive, primeval, pristine, original, aboriginal, primogenial; elementary, rudimentary, initial. first, adv. primarily, originally. firstborn, n.

And who upon this survey can forbear to wish, that these fundamental atoms of our speech might obtain the firmness and immutability of the primogenial and constituent particles of matter, that they might retain their substance while they alter their appearance, and be varied and compounded, yet not destroyed?

"That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which rise immediately out of chaos."—BURNET: ib.