Definition for PRIN'CI-PLE

PRIN'CI-PLE, v.t.

  1. To establish or fix in tenets; to impress with any tenet, good or ill; chiefly used in the participle. Men have been principled with an opinion, that they must not consult reason an things of religion. – Locke.
  2. To establish firmly in the mind. – Locke.

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