Definition of Principium

1. [n -PIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Principium

principalities
principality
principall
principally
principalness
principals
principalship
principalships
principate
principi
principia
principial
principiant
principiation
principiations
principium (current term)
principl
principle
principle of equivalence
principle of least astonishment
principle of least knowledge
principle of liquid displacement
principle of parsimony
principle of relativity
principle of substitutivity
principle of superposition
principle of verifiability
principle of verification
principled
principles

Literary usage of Principium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles by Abraham Kuyper (1898)
"It is not enough for Encyclopedia to declare apodictically that the Holy Bible it the principium of theology. Such a declaration is sufficient, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"In the Svetasvatara Upanishad : " Those that proclaim Brahman say, What is the principium 1 Is it the impersonal self t From what have we proceeded into ..."

3. An Exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1890)
"And the Latins, attributing the term principium to the Son, do it with the addition ... Pater principium non de principio, Filius principium de principio. ..."

4. Fundamental Philosophy by Jaime Luciano Balmes (1856)
"Quamvis autem aliquod corpus possit esse quoddam principium vitse, sicut cor est principium vitse in animali; tamen non potest esse primum principium vitse ..."

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