genesiac

See also: Genesiac

English

Adjective

genesiac (comparative more genesiac, superlative most genesiac)

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

     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.

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

     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.

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

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