genesiac

comparative more genesiac · superlative most genesiac

1. Pertaining to origin.

   The expansion of the universe is thought to have begun in a genesiac explosion (the “Big Bang”) about 20 billion years ago.

   1977/1983, Timothy Ferris, The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe, published 2008, →ISBN

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   The Virgin strikes the globe, and from it issues infinite treasures. Mine delivers the key of human destinies and the sombre enigma of the Sphinx. All that in a few touches! A little colour,—and the mystery of the world is revealed! It is cyclopean,—it is genesiac. Human genius will never transcend it.

   1848 September 16, The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1090, London: […] James Holmes, […] J. Francis, page 928, column 3

   In Greece, the phallus was so pervasive as a genesiac symbol in every phase of daily life, that there were loaves baked in phallic form.

   1963, Harry E. Wedeck, Love Potions Through the Ages, Vision, page 51

1. not comparableRelating to Genesis in the Bible.