principiate
English
editEtymology
editSee principiant.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editprincipiate (third-person singular simple present principiates, present participle principiating, simple past and past participle principiated)
- (obsolete) To begin; to initiate.
- 1654, Edward Leigh, A Systeme or Body of Divinity:
- Both the Kingly and Prophetical Offices of Jesus Christ are principiated in this
References
edit- “principiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editprincipiate
- inflection of principiare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editprincipiate f pl
Spanish
editVerb
editprincipiate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of principiar combined with te