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primum mobile
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Primum mobile
(gcide) | Primum mobile \Pri"mum mob"i*le\ [L., first cause of motion.]
(Astron.)
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.
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The motions of the greatest persons in a government
ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under
primum mobile. --Bacon.
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primum mobile
(wn) | primum mobile
n 1: an agent that is the cause of all things but does not
itself have a cause; "God is the first cause" [syn: {first
cause}, prime mover, primum mobile] |
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Primum mobile
(gcide) | Primum mobile \Pri"mum mob"i*le\ [L., first cause of motion.]
(Astron.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
The motions of the greatest persons in a government
ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under
primum mobile. --Bacon.
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