principiate

English

Etymology

See principiant.

Verb

principiate (third-person singular simple present principiates, present participle principiating, simple past and past participle principiated)

  1. (obsolete) To begin; to initiate.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for principiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Verb

principiate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of principiare
  2. second-person plural imperative of principiare
  3. second-person plural present subjunctive of principiare
  4. feminine plural of principiato
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