Definition of principle

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Principle (v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill..

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Turncoat :: Turncoat (n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
Azoth :: Azoth (n.) The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them..
Looseness :: Looseness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles..
Alien :: Alien (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion..
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..
Theorem :: Theorem (n.) That which is considered and established as a principle; hence, sometimes, a rule..
Criterion :: Criterion (n.) A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them..
Conacre :: Conacre (n.) Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle..
Seed :: Seed (n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice..
Abecedary :: Abecedary (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
Low-churchism :: Low-churchism (n.) The principles of the low-church party.
Morphological :: Morphological (a.) Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology..
Christianly :: Christianly (adv.) In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.
Unity :: Unity (n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition..
Metaphysical :: Metaphysical (a.) According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning..
Rudiment :: Rudiment (v. t.) To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.
High-churchism :: High-churchism (n.) The principles of the high-church party.
Aloin :: Aloin (n.) A bitter purgative principle in aloes.
Datum :: Datum (n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Proteid :: Proteid (n.) One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles, containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See 2d Note under Food..
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