Definition of "principia" []

• First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia. (noun-plural)

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• "The principia was a massive building judging from the size of the columns, so it may well have stood for some considerable time if it was not robbed for stone."
• "Both parties now met again, after which, to put an end to all equivocation, the Latins drew up and read a declaration of their faith in which they stated that they did not admit two "principia" in the Trinity, but only one, the productive power of the Father and the Son, and that the Holy"
• ""The principles of a science are either internal to it, and are then called indigenous (principia domestica), or they are based on principles that can only find their place outside of it, and are foreign principles (peregrina).""