principium

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Whoever he may be to whom this exposition of the divine nature is made, he reaps its highest reward, the emanatory principium itself operating to the highest end of the transmigrating souls.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

We may, then, define efficient cause as the extrinsic principle of the change or production of anything by means of action: principium extrinsicum a quo fluit motus vel productio rei mediante actione.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Id principium apud nos artis, qua hodie Bohemi excellere putantur.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

N. Q. iii. 29; whereas principium denotes the beginning as a concrete notion, as that part of the whole which stands before the other parts in things, and goes before them in actions, in opp. to extremum.

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

We see that for such a just man the principium individuationis is no longer, as in the case of the bad man, an absolute wall of partition.

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