Primeval ( page 287 ).
Questions.
1. What is the derivation and signification of aboriginal? autochthonic? primeval? 2. What do prime and primary denote? What special sense has primary as in reference to a school? 3. How is primordial used? 4. What does primitive suggest, as in the expressions, the primitive church, primitive simplicity? 5. What is pristine? 6. How do native and indigenous compare?
Examples.
Thou from —— nothingness didst call
First chaos, then existence, Lord.
The —— inhabitants of America are long since extinct, for even the races whom the white men conquered had themselves supplanted an earlier race.
All the later ages have wondered at and admired the whole-souled consecration of the —— church.