Vocabulary : Principial to Prink
Principial : Elementary.Principiant : Relating to principles or beginnings.
Principiate : To begin; to initiate.
Principiation : Analysis into primary or elemental parts.
Principle : Beginning; commencement. ;; A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause. ;; An original faculty or endowment. ;; A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate. ;; A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle. ;; Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. ;; To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
