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Principal
n.
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One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
Principal
n.
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A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
Principal
n.
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A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
Principal
n.
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The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
Principal
n.
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In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
Principal
n.
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A heirloom; a mortuary.
Principal
n.
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The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
Principal
n.
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One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Principal
n.
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A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.
Principalities
pl.
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of Principality
Principality
n.
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Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station.
Principality
n.
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A prince; one invested with sovereignty.
Principality
n.
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The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.
Principally
adv.
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In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.
Principalness
n.
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The quality of being principal.
Principate
n.
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Principality; supreme rule.
Principia
n. pl.
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First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
Principial
a.
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Elementary.
Principiant
a.
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Relating to principles or beginnings.
Principiate
v. t.
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To begin; to initiate.
Principiation
n.
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Analysis into primary or elemental parts.
Principle
n.
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Beginning; commencement.
Principle
n.
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A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
Principle
n.
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An original faculty or endowment.
Principle
n.
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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.
Principle
n.
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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.
Principle
n.
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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.
Principled
imp. & p. p.
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of Principle
Principling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Principle
Principle
v. t.
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To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.