单词 | principiative |
释义 | principiativeadj. Chiefly Philosophy. Now rare. That principiates; originating, initiating.Apparently unrecorded between the 17th and 20th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > originating issant?c1485 principianta1631 originanta1641 principiative1650 originating1668 fundative1677 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Deliramenta Catarrhi 51 Beyond all excuse..do the Schools erre, when they deliver, as an oraculous truth, that the midrife is the sole and prime Motor of the Lungs; and, in that relation, the proper and principiative efficient of Respiration. 1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. ii. 23 They..assert a Principiative Son from the solar fountain, and Archangelical, and the fountain of Sense. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 40 To know by a Syllogisme, cannot be an intellectual essentiall, as neither a principiative thing, or from a former cause. 1976 Man 11 353 The question of how to arrange sexuality is the principiative principle of British marriage but not, clearly, a feature of it. 1995 J. P. Doyle in J. P. Doyle tr. F. Suárez On Beings Reason 80 A terminative object versus a principiative or motive object of cognition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1650 |
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