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Principal
PRIN'CIPAL, a. [L. principalis, from princeps.]
1. Chief; highest in rank, character or respectability; as the principal officers of a government; the principal men of a city, town, or state. Acts 25. 1 Chr 24.
2. Chief; most important or considerable; as the principal topics of debate; the principal arguments in a case; the principal points of law; the principal beams of a building; the principal productions of a country.
Wisdom is the principal thing. Prov 4.
3. In law, a principal challenge, is where the cause assigned carries with it prima facie evidence of partiality, favor or malice.
4. In music, fundamental.
PRIN'CIPAL, n. A chief or head; one who takes the lead; as the principal of a faction, an insurrection or mutiny.
1. The president, governor, or chief in authority. We apply the word to the chief instructor of an academy or seminary of learning.
2. In law, the actor or absolute perpetrator of a crime, or an abettor. A principal in the first degree, is the absolute perpetrator of the crime; a principal in the second degree, is one who is present, aiding and abetting the fact to be done; distinguished from an accessory. In treason, all persons concerned are principals.
3. In commerce, a capital sum lent on interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; so called in distinction from interest or profits.
Taxes must be continued, because we have no other means for paying off the principal.
4. One primarily engaged; a chief party; in distinction from an auxiliary.
We were not principals, but auxiliaries in the war.
principal appears in definitions for these words:
Abettor Abstract Accent Accessorily Accessory Accompaniment Acquittal Acroatic Action Add Additament Adjunct Advocate Agency Allegory Altar Analysis Anchor Answerable Antecessor Antimonial Append Appendage Arbor Arch Archconspirator Archdivine Archenemy Arches-court Archpoet Archprotestant Archtraitor Archtyrant Aristocracy Aristocratic Artery Arundelian Attic Attribute Avocation Banner Barge-course Barley Basement Bastion Beam Beauty Brain Butler Cabin Cachalot Capital Capitol Cardinal Cathedral Chaldaic Challenge Channel Characteristic Chestnut-tree Chief Chiefly Chieftain Chore Circle Cloister Club Cofferer Collateral Color Come Commissary Commodity Compendium Complete Compound Concise Concordance Configuration Contributary Corner-stone Coroner Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Council Countersign Courses Crown-post Custos Demand Derange Diadem Difference Dine Dining Dinner Diploma Discount Discounted Diversion Docket Dominion Drama Eagle Emotion Encyclopedy Entremets Enumeration Epilogue Epitomize Epitomy Especial Especially Eurite Exchequer Fear Fever Figure Flower Focus For Fore Friar Front Frontispiece Fruit-tree Garland Garnishee Garter Gastric Generator Geography Girder Grand Great Ground Handed Head Headstone Hero Humor Hypothecate Illuminati Illuminator Implication Incident Indent Infidelity Inn Intent Intention Interest Interplead Keel Leading Ledger Lend Liable Light Lobate Luminary Magistrate Main Main-keel Main-land Main-mast Main-sail Mainly Major Mart Master Master-jest Master-lode Master-string Master-tooth Master-touch Master-work Matadore Mate Meal Memoir Metropolitic Minnow Mode Modulator Moral Mouth Muggy Neck Negotiator Niter Noble Node Nominate Occupation Officer Ordeal Order Parenthesis Pastry Peroration Plant Pole-ax Postfix Posture Potato Preceptor Premier Primary Principal Principality Principally Principalness Principate Privy-seal Projection Prolifical Prominent Prothonotary Provincial Provincialism Proxy Prudence Quarter Rajah Recapitulate Recapitulating Recapitulation Rector Redeem Redemption Reimbursement Relative Responsible Reticular Ribin Rock Roman Sail Samaritan Sanders Saturn Saving Sect Senate Sheep Should Similar Skeleton Sketch Small Spur Square-rigged Stamen Staple Stark State Stem Ster Sting Stowage Strength Studding-sail Suffragan Surety Surgery Surveyor-general Swanimote Synopsis Synoptic Table Tackle Tail Tartan Thine Thunder Tillage Tint Tongued Toparch Treasurer Tree Tripoli Under Underclerk Undermaster Undersecretary Union Unprince V Vestry-man Vicar-general Volute Wacky Ward-room Well-water Whirling-table Wood World Yacht
Abettor Abstract Accent Accessorily Accessory Accompaniment Acquittal Acroatic Action Add Additament Adjunct Advocate Agency Allegory Altar Analysis Anchor Answerable Antecessor Antimonial Append Appendage Arbor Arch Archconspirator Archdivine Archenemy Arches-court Archpoet Archprotestant Archtraitor Archtyrant Aristocracy Aristocratic Artery Arundelian Attic Attribute Avocation Banner Barge-course Barley Basement Bastion Beam Beauty Brain Butler Cabin Cachalot Capital Capitol Cardinal Cathedral Chaldaic Challenge Channel Characteristic Chestnut-tree Chief Chiefly Chieftain Chore Circle Cloister Club Cofferer Collateral Color Come Commissary Commodity Compendium Complete Compound Concise Concordance Configuration Contributary Corner-stone Coroner Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Council Countersign Courses Crown-post Custos Demand Derange Diadem Difference Dine Dining Dinner Diploma Discount Discounted Diversion Docket Dominion Drama Eagle Emotion Encyclopedy Entremets Enumeration Epilogue Epitomize Epitomy Especial Especially Eurite Exchequer Fear Fever Figure Flower Focus For Fore Friar Front Frontispiece Fruit-tree Garland Garnishee Garter Gastric Generator Geography Girder Grand Great Ground Handed Head Headstone Hero Humor Hypothecate Illuminati Illuminator Implication Incident Indent Infidelity Inn Intent Intention Interest Interplead Keel Leading Ledger Lend Liable Light Lobate Luminary Magistrate Main Main-keel Main-land Main-mast Main-sail Mainly Major Mart Master Master-jest Master-lode Master-string Master-tooth Master-touch Master-work Matadore Mate Meal Memoir Metropolitic Minnow Mode Modulator Moral Mouth Muggy Neck Negotiator Niter Noble Node Nominate Occupation Officer Ordeal Order Parenthesis Pastry Peroration Plant Pole-ax Postfix Posture Potato Preceptor Premier Primary Principal Principality Principally Principalness Principate Privy-seal Projection Prolifical Prominent Prothonotary Provincial Provincialism Proxy Prudence Quarter Rajah Recapitulate Recapitulating Recapitulation Rector Redeem Redemption Reimbursement Relative Responsible Reticular Ribin Rock Roman Sail Samaritan Sanders Saturn Saving Sect Senate Sheep Should Similar Skeleton Sketch Small Spur Square-rigged Stamen Staple Stark State Stem Ster Sting Stowage Strength Studding-sail Suffragan Surety Surgery Surveyor-general Swanimote Synopsis Synoptic Table Tackle Tail Tartan Thine Thunder Tillage Tint Tongued Toparch Treasurer Tree Tripoli Under Underclerk Undermaster Undersecretary Union Unprince V Vestry-man Vicar-general Volute Wacky Ward-room Well-water Whirling-table Wood World Yacht
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