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Primum mobile

In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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