principium

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It sees through the form of the phenomenon, the principium individuationis.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Tam in ingressu Sacerdotis ad altare, quam ante principium Missae, reverentia Sacerdotis debet esse profunda capitis et corporis, non capitis tantum, inclinatio, juxta rubricam 8.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, January 1865 by Various

We have called time and space the principium individuationis, because only through them and in them is multiplicity of the homogeneous possible.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

The initium is pushed out of the way by that which follows; the principium serves as a basis for that which follows.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig

He adds, with a true Roman's antipathy to Greek �sthetics and their flimsy screen for sensuality, "Bene ergo Ennius, flagitii principium est nudare inter cives corpora."

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington