Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Primitive; original.
  • To begin; set in motion; initiate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To begin; to initiate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To begin; to initiate.

Etymologies

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See principiant.

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Examples

  • Our hypothesis of what could be thought in these terms turns into a certainty when we explore the structures of intellectual causality, for example, the relation between the act of thinking and what is thought, or between an ethical principle and an ethical principiate.

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • In this activity, however, thinking directs itself towards a thought that it has originated, that is, towards the product that is its principiate: principiatum.

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • Even more: The principiate is in its principle nothing other than its principle.

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • In these cases, it holds that the principle causes its principiate, and the principiate causes its principle.

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • This principle knows itself and wills itself, thinking thought in this way as its principiate, the ground of the soul in its uncreatedness and uncreatability.

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • This thought, as thinking, is in turn principle, principiating and principiate, whereby this last is the original thinking.

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

  • Trogo retained its identity only because it was the seat of the lords of the greater principiate, its governmental and religious center.

    Shadow Games Cook, Glen 1989

  • The material cause, that out of which the principiate, or effect, is made or caused, is conceived as an indeterminate potentiality.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • (principiate) is at the same time passive and active, being active in the course of its passivity (as principiate).

    Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006

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