germinal
adjective
being in the earliest stage of development.
germinally
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a word derived from
germinal.
Example Sentences
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P.A.C. is not even a third party, except germinally.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the avantgardistes who ferment, sometimes germinally, at the thin edge of commercial publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen.
From Time Magazine Archive
We take for granted, I repeat, that all man's mental faculties are germinally, potentially, present in protoplasm; we seek the history of their development.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
"Mysterium" is anything out of which something germinally contained in it can be developed.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
If a girl comes of an intellectual ancestry, it is likely that she herself will carry such traits germinally, even if she has never had an opportunity to develop them.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
