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Beginning, commencement; origin, source; first principle, element; fundamental truth; = "principle".


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In plural "Principia": the book Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (‘The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy’), by Sir Isaac Newton, first published in 1687 and giving a mathematical description of the laws of mechanics and gravitation and their application to planetary motion.


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In the medieval University: an inaugural lecture, sermon, etc.; any of several lectures or disputations required of students before proceeding to the next stage of their studies; specifically (a) a public lecture or disputation by which a Bachelor in any faculty, having received the Chancellor's licence, ceremonially entered upon his functions to become an actual Master or Doctor; (b) in Paris and elsewhere, a disputation by which a student in the Theological Faculty became a Bachelor of Divinity; (c) a discourse upon some theological problem which a Bachelor of Divinity was later (as a Sententiarius) required to deliver, before beginning his course of lectures on each of the four books of the Sententiae of Peter the Lombard.


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In plural. Roman History. The general's quarters in an army camp.


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