Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Elementary; initial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Elementary.
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- adjective obsolete
elementary
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Examples
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And I shall be misunderstord if understood to give an unconditional sinequam to the heroicised furibouts of the Nolanus theory, or, at any rate, of that substrate of apart from hissheory where the Theophil swoors that on principial he was the pointing start of his odiose by comparison and that whiles eggs will fall cheapened all over the walled the Bure will be dear on the Brie.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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On account of heat being kindled by the attrition of bodies, reject a principial nature.
The New Organon 2005
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By principial nature I mean that which exists in the nature of things positively, and not as the effect of any antecedent nature.
The New Organon 2005
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The Europeans have no principial solution, as, actually, the Americans haven't either.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma Dorin T. Moisa
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There is a principial problem, when we ask a question.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma Dorin T. Moisa
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MDT considers that there is no principial difference between male and female brains.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma Dorin T. Moisa
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In its own way, this event is as principial as its reverse, when the center emptied out to the periphery in Genesis I and on Holy Saturday.
One Cosmos 2009
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The battle against the Lisbon Treaty culminates now before Czech Constitutional court, where president Klaus have had a principial speech yesterday - where he eloquently used the own arguments used to defend the Treaty by the Czech Government - he used it paradoxicly and very logically against the Treaty.
911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News tumetuestumefaisdubien 2008
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