Word Meanings - PRINCIPIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.

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• PRINCIPIA
  First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• PRINCIPIAL
  Elementary. Bacon.
• PRINCIPIANT
  Relating to principles or beginnings. Jer. Taylor.
• FUNDAMENTALLY
  Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• PRINCIPIATE
  To begin; to initiate. Sir M. Hale.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• FUNDAMENTAL
  Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• NEWTONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries. Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; -- applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's "Principia," to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• PRINCIPIATION
  Analysis into primary or elemental parts. Bacon.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• DOUBLE FIRST
  A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics. One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.