Word Meanings - PRINCIPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative
Additional info about word: PRINCIPLE
Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna. Gregory. Bitter principle, Principle of contradiction, etc. See under Bitter, Contradiction, etc. (more info) 1. Beginning; commencement. Doubting sad end of principle unsound. Spenser. 2. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. The soul of man is an active principle. Tillotson. 3. An original faculty or endowment. Nature in your principles hath set . Chaucer. Those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering. Stewart. 4. A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate. Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection. Heb. vi. 1. A good principle, not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad. Milton. 5. A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle. All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind. Law.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRINCIPLE)
- Cause
- Source
- origin
- producer
- agent
- creator
- purpose
- inducement
- reason
- account
- principle
- motive
- object
- suit
- action
- Doctrine
- Tenet
- article
- belief
- creed
- dogma
- teaching
- precept
- Law
- Rule
- edict
- regulation
- decree
- command
- order
- statute
- enactment
- mode
- method
- sequence
- code
- legislation
- adjudication
- jurisdiction
- jurisprudence
- Precept
- maxim
- injunction
- commandment
- doctrine
- direction
- law
- mandate
- instruction
- Probity
- Soundness
- virtue
- integrity
- honesty
- uprightness
- rectitude
- conscientiousness
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRINCIPLE)
- Disesteem
- misestimate
- mystify
- understate
- undervalue
- perplex
- darken
- Supplicate
- entreat
- persuade
- beg
- petition
- suggest
- represent
- Chance
- risk
- hazard
- revoke
- Miscalculate
- venture
- stake
Related words: (words related to PRINCIPLE)
- CREAM-FACED
White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - SUPPLICATE
supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - DOGMATIC
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric. - TEACHER
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. - CREDIBLY
In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event. - REVOKER
One who revokes. - CREEP
to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - TEACHABLENESS
Willingness to be taught. - CRESYLIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc. Cresylic acid. See Cresol. - CREATURELY
Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne. - CREATIONAL
Of or pertaining to creation. - SUGGESTER
One who suggests. Beau. & Fl. - CREMOR
Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum. - UNCREATED
1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - INCONSEQUENCE
The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. - INCREPATION
A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond. - INCREMABLE
Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - DECRESCENDO
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign. - PANCREATIN
One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic - CONCRETIVELY
In a concrete manner.