A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
Moral rule or aspect.
A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
A beginning.
A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
An original faculty or endowment.
To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
Primary; most important.
Of or relating to a prince; princely.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
The chief administrator of a school.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The primary participant in a crime.
A partner or owner of a business.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
An essential point or rule; a principle.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
A security principal.