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‖ ab initio, phr.|æb ɪˈnɪʃɪəʊ|
[L.]
From the beginning; hence, as quasi-adj. = initial a. A. 1.
1600B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Prol., If those lawes..had beene deliuered vs, ab Initio; and in their present vertue and perfection. 1767H. Walpole Lett. (1843) Ser. I. let. cv. 344 It ought to have been declared null ab initio. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. ix. 138 Assuming as a postulate, that both [sc. Truth and Being] are ab initio, identical and co-inherent. 1838J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 349 He [sc. Bentham] begins all his inquiries by supposing nothing to be known on the subject, and reconstructs all philosophy ab initio. 1906Harmsworth Encycl. VIII. 6011/2 If such legal right is abused, the act of trespass becomes an ab initio one. 1937Kipling Something of Myself viii. 207, I found that when, to save trouble, I ‘wrote short’ ab initio much salt went out of the work. 1943T. Horsley Find, Fix & Strike 21 The Swordfish was used as an ab-initio trainer. |