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Sentence Examples
| The steam-engine is a compound machine which exerts a moving force, and is the primum mobile or first moving power to give motion to other machines, mills, or engines. |
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| Some religious orders celebrated Mass according to rites of their own, dating from more than 200 years before the papal bull Quo primum. |
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| These liturgical rites have an antiquity of at least 200 years before 1570, the date of Pope Pius V's Quo primum, and were thus allowed to continue. |
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| The drawings show the Ptolemaic system of nested spheres, with one circle inside the other, ending in the Primum Mobile. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| No, I of only I want you to tell us what was the primum mobile in the matter. |
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| I need not say that your correspondent is quite right in referring the words first moved to the primum mobile. |
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| The primum mobile of the new system was Motion, in distinction from the Rest which marked the old monastic retreats. |
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| In this effort lies its only possible unity, its primum mobile, its one clearly defined object from beginning to end. |
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| When it is established the septum primum grows down and meets the endocardial cushions, and so the ostium primum is obliterated. |
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| This was believed to turn all the others, and was called the primum mobile. |
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| In all these cases the primum mobile is the making of a livelihood. |
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| Hostility to the foreigner is the primum mobile of their local policy. |
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