Principial

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Elementary; fundamental.

    "On account of heat being kindled by the attrition of bodies, reject a principial nature. By principial nature I mean that which exists in the nature of things positively, and not as the effect of any antecedent nature."

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"On account of heat being kindled by the attrition of bodies, reject a principial nature. By principial nature I mean that which exists in the nature of things positively, and not as the effect of any antecedent nature."

Etymology

Probably a learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipiālis. By surface analysis, principia + -al.

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