The Collaborative International Dictionary
Principiate
Principiate \Prin*cip"i*ate\, v. t. [See Principiant.]
To begin; to initiate. [Obs.]
--Sir M. Hale.
Wiktionary
principiate
vb. (context obsolete English) To begin; to initiate.
Usage examples of "principiate".
Without him the Dual Principiate would never have fallen, and none of this would have come to pass .