Commanding and Primal

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
  • synonyms: command
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: command, require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
  • synonyms: command
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control, command

adjective

• Used of a height or viewpoint.
  • usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
  • synonyms: dominating, overlooking

• (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
• (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
• (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

adjective

• Serving as an essential component.
  • usage: "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
  • synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, key
• Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.
  • usage: "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
  • synonyms: aboriginal, primeval, primaeval, primordial