单词 | principiate |
释义 | principiateadj.n. Chiefly Theology and Philosophy. That has a beginning; originated, initiated; (also) of, relating, to, or constituting an origin or beginning. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] mother?c1225 originalc1350 radicala1398 primitive?a1425 fundamentalc1449 primordial?a1450 primea1500 primary1565 nativea1592 fundamentive1593 primordiate1599 primara1603 remote1605 originousa1637 originary1638 parental1647 principiate1654 fontal1656 underivative1656 underived1656 fountainous1662 first hand1699 matricular1793 first-handed1855 protomorphic1887 1649 W. Charleton tr. J. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 121 Man doth differ from God in substance no otherwise, then a part doth from the whole, or that which had beginning from that which is non-principiate.] 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana i. vii. 81 Our Nature, that is principiate, mutable, and terminable. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 27 Our eyes, that see other things, see not themselves: And those principiate foundations of knowledge are themselvs unknown. 1702 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick (ed. 3) 95 All formed beings are terminate, that is, are principiate and have a beginning, and finite, or have an ending. 1771 J. Keir tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. II. 583 As these substances, although compounded of a certain number of principles, do themselves the office of principles in the composition of bodies less simple than themselves, they have been called principiate principles. B. n. That which results from or is produced by a principle; the product of a principle or principles. ΚΠ 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 101 Of Substances some are Principles, some Principiates... By Principiates (give me leave to make an English word of one not very good Latin) I mean substances that are caused or composed of Principles. Principles make, Principiates are made to be. 1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels v. 351 Wherefore whithersoever the Principles tend, the Principiates follow, they cannot be separated. 1797 S. Browne Diss. Bilious Malignant Fever 25 That the mind or spirit thus resides in its principles in the brain, and in its principiates in the body, is manifest from experience. 1857 E. Swedenborg tr. Misc. Theol. Wks. 267 One who examines principiates without attending to the first principle. 1949 M. C. Fitzpatrick tr. St. Thomas Aquinas On Spiritual Creatures xi. 127 If the powers of the soul are something other than its essence, it must be the case that they flow from the essence of the soul as from a principle. But this is impossible, because it would follow that a principiate would be more immaterial than its own principle. 1982 K. L. Schmitz Gift-creation 103 In a word, then, the term actual designates a principle not a principiate, a source not a result. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). principiatev. Chiefly Philosophy. Now rare (historical in later use). transitive. To cause to begin; to originate, initiate, set in motion. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] beginc1175 baptizec1384 to set a (on) broachc1440 open1471 to set abroachc1475 entame1477 to set afloat1559 initiate1604 first1607 principiate1613 to set afoot or on foot1615 unclap1621 inchoatea1631 flush1633 to set on1638 principatec1650 rudiment1654 auspicate1660 embryonate1666 to strike up1711 start1723 institutea1797 float1833 spark1912 1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 4 Some parts might have bene found fit for the Indian Nauigation, then principiated in Holland, and muttered of in England. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 218 The Soul, by reason of her Potential State here, cannot principiate any Bodily Action. 1954 V. E. Smith St. Thomas on Obj. Geom. 59 The principles of any science are not proved by the science employing them. Principles are only inadequately and virtually the wholes which they principiate; otherwise, in knowing the principles, the mind would also actually know what is principiated. 2003 P. King in T. Williams Cambr. Compan. Duns Scotus i. 48 According to Scotus..one and the same thing has an active principle to produce a form it currently lacks and a passive principle of receiving such a form, and these two principles jointly bring about (or ‘principiate’) the result. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1654v.1613 |
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