Meanings
plural principiations
- countableobsoleteuncountableanalysis into primary or elemental parts
the separating of any metal into his original , or materia prima , or element , or call them what you will ; which work we will call principiation
a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Questions Touching Minerals1 more example
Some latter Writers make account that Iron is not drawne to the Load-stone but moved as to its Matrix, by whose hidden principiations it might bee perfected, as the earth unto its Center.
1642, Daniel Lakin, A miraculous cure of the Prusian swallow-knife being dissected out of his stomack by the physitians of Regimonto […]
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