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Definitions

primum mobile

[pree-moom moh-bi-le, prahy-muhm mob-uh-lee, pree-] / ˈpri mʊm ˈmoʊ bɪˌlɛ, ˈpraɪ məm ˈmɒb əˌli, ˈpri- /
NOUN
prime mover
Synonyms
STRONGEST
instigator motivator mover
WEAK
author creator drive initial force motive force power source

Example Sentences

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There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seraphs, the most powerful angels, kept the primum mobile moving; cherubs moved the zodiac, thrones the sphere of Saturn, and so on down to the moon, which fell under the care of common angels.

From Time Magazine Archive

The innermost was the central and unmoving earth; outward from the earth were the spheres of the moon, of the five known planets, of the sun and the zodiac, and finally the primum mobile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moral virtue is with me a primum mobile in all things.

From An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Carlile, Richard

I mentally exclaimed; “I have found the primum mobile of the circulation of the blood.”

From Theory of Circulation by Respiration Synopsis of its Principles and History by Willard, Emma