primalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪməl/
• 韻: -aɪməl

形容詞

primal (not comparable)

1. Being the first in time or in history.

   primal man

2. Of greatest importance; primary.
   • 1870, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Preplatonic Philosophers‎^[1], page 127:

     The most primal motion of all, of course, is vertical—a steady eternal fall into the infinity of space; speed cannot be ascribed to them, since, given the infinity of space and the absolute steadiness of the fall, no [relative] standard for it exists at all.

   • 1873, The Lancet 1873: Issue 2625‎^[2], Elsevier Limited, page 882:

     “We don’t know what life is. We do know what death is. It is change of habitat of ghost. I wish we had some sepate or house of bishops to tabulate these concepts. The law of togetherness and apartness is the most primal concept of life, Hence a crystal belongs as legitimately to the sphere of life as any seraph that blazes before the throne.” And so on for dreary pages.

   • 1885, North American Review 1885-01: Volume 140, Issue 338‎^[3], North American Review, pages 49–50:

     But in the United States the whole movement has hardly reached the stage of toleration. It seems difficult for the great body of well-meaning, native-born citizens of mature vears, who are not of the wage-earning order, to understand how enormous have been the changes in the very frame-work of industrial life, and in the simplest and most primal facts affecting the social conditions in which the wage- workers, especially of the great cities and manufacturing sections of the land, now find themselves, year by year, more and more completely environed. The successful middle-aged American carries within his memory, as a rule, associations as to his own early struggles quite at variance with those that would now wait on him were he about to enter the arena of competition, armed only with such forcesas his natural physical nowers, partial training, and moderately developed mental capacities, might afford him at this time. Failing to put himself in the other man’s place, the matured man of business is almost invariably narrow and unjust in his estimate of the motives and aims of the labor-union organizer. There is also a justifiable feeling against the effort to make metes and bounds in the way of class distinctions.

3. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.

同意語

• (first in time または history): aboriginal, primaeval/primeval, primordial
• (of greatest importance): primary

派生語

名詞

primal (複数形 primals)

1. A primal cut (of meat).

動詞

primal (三人称単数 現在形 primals, 現在分詞 primaling または primalling, 過去形および過去分詞形 primaled または primalled)

1. (intransitive) To take part in primal therapy.
   • 1979, The Journal of Orgonomy, volume 13, number 1, page 108:

     One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.

   • 1982, Lawrence Edwin Abt, Irving R. Stuart, The Newer Therapies: A Sourcebook, page 369:

     Primaling on the infant level seems so genuinely babyish that the unsophisticated observer may mistake it for psychotic behavior.

参照

• Primal cut on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• imparl