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primum mobile - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'primum mobile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Primum mobile
- In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline.

Meaning of 'primum mobile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . primum mobile [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
Example in sentence:
  • God is the first cause

Nearby Words:

prial prian priapean priapism priapulacea pricasour price priced priceite priceless

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