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Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…

Principle is a rule or belief; principal can mean main or a person in charge.

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…

A rule, belief or fundamental idea.

principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"

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A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.

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The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.

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That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or ar…

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To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

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Alt. of Ethical

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A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.

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The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry.

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Act of localizing, or state of being localized.

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The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be cond…

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The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not suppor…

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A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.

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The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geomet…

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The cry of the wild goose; a honk.

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A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.

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The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.

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The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from part…

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In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…

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Directed; prescribed.

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That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.

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To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.

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Alt. of Ethical

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To teach by precepts.

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An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.

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That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…

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