Principia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Principia is a noun meaning (archaic) First principles; elementary material.
Meaning
(archaic) First principles; elementary material.
Example Sentences
They were her principia, her rudiments; the elementary atoms; the little steps by which she pressed forward to perfection.
1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]
Word Forms
- principium
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include latina, primordial, principle, principal, incipience, urgrund.
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