Definitions for Principia

Principia prin·cip·i·um

Spelling: [prin-sip-ee-uh m]
IPA: /prɪnˈsɪp i əm/

Principia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in Principia (aciiinppr).

Definitions for Principia

noun

  1. a principle.
  2. a principle.

Origin of Principia

1575-85; Latin prīncipium literally, that which is first, equivalent to prīncip- (see prince) + -ium -ium

Examples for Principia

The initium is pushed out of the way by that which follows; the principium serves as a basis for that which follows.

The principium or perfection of cognition is to be found in the immediate proposition, true per se.

Further, inasmuch as the soul is the principium of mental action, it must be an incorporeal principle existing by itself.

Such a one has broken the fetters of the principium individuationis.

The principium individuationis, with the consequent distinction of individuals, is the order of things in themselves.

For the ultimate perfection of a rational creature lies in that which is the source or principle (principium) of its being.

We cannot directly by sense perceive the Universal, though sense is the principium of the Universal.

Thus, the general rule would be to begin with Homer: a Jove principium.

Aiunt hretici temporis nostri quod duo sunt principia rerum, principium lucis et principium tenebrarum, &c.

He traces back its origin to God himself—ab Jove principium.

All these deductions are fundamental, and may be considered as the foundation of the principia.

This is published in the principia as a fact, without comment.

It was only in the second edition of the principia that the theory of comets was introduced.

No sooner was the principia put than Hooke put in his claims for priority.

Descartes wrote a work with this title, principia Philosophi.

It was by this continuous application that the principia was accomplished.

When Newton heard of it he began the principia, working in silence.

All these discoveries were brought together in that immortal work, Newton's "principia."

Descartes' principia and his Meditationes were written in Latin.

You know that Newton said it cost him more labour than all the rest of the principia.

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