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principall

principall is the obsolete form of principal.

Meaning of principal

Adjective

principal (comparative more principal, superlative most principal)

  1. Primary; most important; first level in importance.
    • Smith is the principal architect of this design.
    Synonyms:
    chief, main, primary, capital
  2. (Latinism, obsolete) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
    • But walkt at will, and wandred to and fro, / In the pride of his freedome principall.1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
    • Two is the principal square root of 4. Both −2 and +2 are square roots of 4.

See all 18 meanings of principal

Forms of principall

Adjective
comparativemore principall
superlativemost principall
Noun
pluralprincipalls

Questions about principall

What is principall the obsolete form of?
Principall is the obsolete form of principal.

Words near principall in the dictionary

  1. Principality of Odishi
  2. Principality of Samtskhe
  3. Principality of Svaneti
  4. Principality of Wales
  5. principalization
  6. principall
  7. principalls
  8. principally
  9. principalness
  10. principals
  11. principalship

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