historic vs primal

historic

adj
  • Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history. 

  • Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.) 

  • Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity. 

  • Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events. 

primal

adj
  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being the first in time or in history. 

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

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

How often have the words historic and primal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )