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A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard. J. S. Mill.

According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical. Deviations from the normal type. Hallam.

notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. Sir I. Newton. Few agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc. I. Watts. Notion,…

The doctrines or principles of the Novatians. Milner.

The system or the principles of the obscurants. C. Kingsley.

explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all operative principles. South.

d to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. The first principles of the oracles of God. Heb. v. 12.

Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.

Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.

Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement. The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter. L. F. Ward.

The supreme deity, the principle of good, creator of the world, and guardian of mankind. He is the opponent of Ahriman, the spirit of evil, both being sprung from Eternity, or, according to another version, Ahriman being the offspring of a moment of doubt on the part of Ormazd. Ormazd is attended by angels and archange…

The good principle, or being, of the ancient Persian religion. See Ahriman.

To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. [R.] His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

r degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning. "No parity of principle." De Quincey. Equality of length and parity of numeration. Sir T. Browne.

The policy or principles of the Parnellites.

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.