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From the beginning
Answer for the clue "From the beginning ", 9 letters:
ab initio
Word definitions for ab initio in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv : at the beginning; "at first he didn't notice anything strange" [syn: initially , at first , at the start ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, Latin, literally "from the beginning," from ab "from" + oblique case of initium "entrance, beginning," related to verb inire "to go into, enter upon, begin" (see initial ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context legal English) From the time when a legal document comes into force. (Early 17 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=4) 2 (context science English) Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ab initio is a Latin term meaning "from the beginning" and is derived from the Latin ab ("from") + initio , ablative singular of initium ("beginning").
Usage examples of ab initio.
The arguments not only make no sense ab initio, but openly contradict one another.
Dad found some defect in his marriage with Cymnea and had it dissolved-ab initio, as they would say in my old shadow-from the beginning.
Dad found some defect in his marriage with Cymnea and had it dissolved -- ab initio, as they would say in my old shadow -- from the beginning.
It is vitiated 'ab initio', and would, if successful, free you for the completion of this immoral project.
I believe, too, he was capable of taking a roll of material and cutting it out with his knife upon the deck-planks, and fabricating garments ab initio.
You concede therefore that all grain grown on the Moon in excess of the local ration is ab initio and beyond contest the property of all, title held in trust by the Federated Nations through its agencies for distribution as needed.