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• Principiate — Prin*cip i*ate, v. t. [See {Principiant}.] To begin; to initiate. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Prosopography — In historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of an historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives. Prosopographical research has… …   Wikipedia

• Cause — • Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed Catholic… …   Catholic encyclopedia