in principio

[ in prin-ki-pi-aw; English in-prin-sip-ee-oh ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. at or in the beginning; at first.

Example Sentences

Dr. Bentley showed him the same passage in Latin: In principio erat Serina ille, et Sermo ille erat apud Deum, eratque ille Sermo Deus.

From Literature

The impressive piece, ready to be installed at Newcastle upon Tyne's Castle Keep, is a modern tribute to the incipit of St John's Gospel in principio erat Verbum - "in the beginning was the Word."

From BBC

Ind. Ter. Indian Territory. inf., infra=Below; Infantry; Infinitive. infra dig., infra dignitatem=Beneath one's dignity. init., initio=In the beginning. in lim., in limine=On the threshold, at the outset. in loc., in loco=In its place;—in loc. cit., in loco citato =In the place cited. in pr., in principio=In the beginning.

From Project Gutenberg

John then ordered a general fast of three days; and after the fast he was so greatly filled with the spirit of God, that he excelled all God's angels and all creatures with his exalted mind, and began the evangelical memorial with these words, "In principio erat verbum," etc., that is in English, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God; this was in the beginning with God; all things are made through him, and without him nothing is created."

From Project Gutenberg

In the exercise then of that private judgment, which the reformers of the sixteenth century asserted, all the Christian world fell into error: yes, all of them; for Luther says, "in principio solus eram."

From Project Gutenberg