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21primeval, primitive — Primeval, a rarely used word, means original, belonging to the earliest age or ages. It is derived from a Latin word meaning in the first period of life and was thus used in Longfellow s Evangeline: This is the forest primeval. Primitive, from a… …
22Reserved word — Reserved words (occasionally called keywords) are one type of grammatical construct in programming languages. These words have special meaning within the language and are predefined in the language’s formal specifications. Typically, reserved… …
23Divine Word Missionary — ▪ religious organization member of Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.) a Roman Catholic religious organization, composed of priests and brothers, founded in 1875 at Steyl, Neth., by Arnold Janssen to work in the foreign missions. Its… …
24Neo-Eldarin — is a term that may be employed to describe the language of texts attempting to actually use the Elven tongues invented by British author and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien for his Middle earth legendarium. (The word Eldarin means Elvish in Quenya,… …
25prim´i|tive|ness — prim|i|tive «PRIHM uh tihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of early times; of long ago: »Primitive people often lived in caves. SYNONYM(S): prehistoric. 2. first of the kind: »primitive Christians. 3. very simple; such as people had early in human… …
26prim´i|tive|ly — prim|i|tive «PRIHM uh tihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of early times; of long ago: »Primitive people often lived in caves. SYNONYM(S): prehistoric. 2. first of the kind: »primitive Christians. 3. very simple; such as people had early in human… …
27prim|i|tive — «PRIHM uh tihv», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. of early times; of long ago: »Primitive people often lived in caves. SYNONYM(S): prehistoric. 2. first of the kind: »primitive Christians. 3. very simple; such as people had early in human history: »A… …
28compound radical — Radical Rad i*cal (r[a^]d [i^]*kal), n. 1. (Philol.) (a) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon. (b) A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix. [1913 Webster] The words we at present make… …
29Radical — Rad i*cal (r[a^]d [i^]*kal), n. 1. (Philol.) (a) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon. (b) A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix. [1913 Webster] The words we at present make use of,… …
30radical — I. a. 1. Original, fundamental, organic, constitutional, native, natural, innate, essential, ingrained, deep seated. 2. Primitive, underived, uncompounded, simple, original. 3. Thorough, entire, complete, perfect, total, extreme, thorough going,… …
